LARGE FILM CONTRACT
' SEVENTY-ONE THEATRES PICTURES FOR DOMINION One of the largest film exhibition contracts ever made in New Zealand was concluded yesterday by Mr. Cecil Mason, managing director of Columbia Pictures. Limited, who passed through Auckland on the Mariposa on his way back to Sydney after a visit to America. Mr. Mason said the contract would embrace 71 theatres controlled by New Zealand Theatres, Fuller-Hayward Theatres, Christehureh Cinemas and West Coast Amusements. It provided for tho supply of all the Columbia pictures for 1935, including two films with Grace Moore as the principal and ono directed by Frank Capra. Other prominent men in tho film business travelling by the Mariposa included Mr. Stanley S. Crick, managing director of Twentieth Century Fox Films and chairman of directors of Hoyt's Theatres; Mr. Charles Munro, managing director of Hoyt's Theatres; Mr. 11. C. Mclntyrc, managing director of Universal Pictures; Mr. D. Lotherington, of K.K.O. Pictures; and Mr. K. Asprey, of Union Theatres.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22777, 10 July 1937, Page 18
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160LARGE FILM CONTRACT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22777, 10 July 1937, Page 18
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