AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)
55 DAYS FAST KILLS. OTTAWA, July 9. Airs Hope Contough has died at Tor- . onto, after fasting 55 days. She made the fast in an attempt to cure indigestion. FIRE TRAGEDY. VANCOUVER, July 9. Seven persons were burned to death in a lire which swept through the upper storeys of an apartments house here last night.
ARCTIC EXPEDITION LEAVES. SYDNEY (Nova Scotia), July 9. Alacnii Han’s Sub-Are tic JExpedition has sailed from here, for Labrador. FILMS COMPANY CHARED. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) WASHINGTON. July 9. The Federal Trade Commission lias issued an order citing the famous Players Lasky Corporation for conspiracy “to monopolise or attempt to jj monopolise the motion picture industry.” particularly in inter-state and foreign commerce on the production and distribution and exhibition of cinema films compelling exhibitors to take all or none of the group of films without regard to the character of - £ tho pictures or the wishes of the pic- t tore house, and acquiring or threatening to acquire theatres for the puipose of intimidating or coercing exhibitor to book and exhibit tho firm’s pictures. Sixty days are allowed in order to enable the Company to continue the alleged practices. This decision is considered most important as affecting the cinema industry silica its inception.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19270711.2.22
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1927, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
217AMERICAN CABLE NEWS Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1927, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in