A HUGE VENTURE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 13, 18 August 1911, Page 8

A HUGE VENTURE.

WORLD-WIDE THEATRE SCHEME. Probably the greatest association of its kind in the world is now in process of formation, the capital being two millions sterling, and the scene of operations scattered over Canada, the Lmted States, England, Australia and South Africa. The Australian theatres of the present J. D. Williams Company will be run in conjunction with the new enterprise. A board of censors will inspect and pass all the pictures which are to be exhibited, as is done for the Edison Company in New York. Mr Williams points out that he was the first to institute the censor idea in Australia, having got the education authorities to approve of his pictures before projection. With a view to arranging details for the Australian section, and to secure the latest scientific improvements for photo, plays, Mr Williams will visit America, England, France, Germany and Austria, returning again via-America five months hence. A feature of the tour is the prominence which will be given to Australia in all the advertisements, for which spaces have been secured in the American papers. Mr Williams intends to advertise Australia in the Republic, and to that end has secured a splendid collection of Australian photographs, which will be judiciously placed in the big centres of America. "I'm going to show that Australia is a place worth looking to as a likely land to come to," laid Mr Williams.