“GET TOGETHER” LUNCH

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11173, 31 March 1922, Page 8

“GET TOGETHER” LUNCH

PARAMOUNT PICTURES CHIEF MEETS FILM EXHIBITORS. To meet Mr John W. Hicks, junr.j managing director for Australasia of tie! Paramount-■ Pictures Corporation, some forty picture film exhibitors from all parts of the Dominion gathered at the Grand Hotel yesterday at a “get-toother, luncheon,” on the invitation of Mr E. R.' Chambers, manager of Paramount Pictures, Wellington. ' In welcoming the guests, Mr Chambers said that it was a great thing to find that, even those of them who were in the keen-j est opposition were able to get together for the general benefit of thear industry. The usual loyal toast, “The King,” was duly honoured', and the only other' health given Wae that of Mr John W. Hicks, junr., which was proposed by Mr O. N. Gillespie, film manager of the New Zealand Picture Supplies, and drunk with musical honours. Mr Hicks briefly and suitably responded, and gave an interesting address on the motion-picture industry, which, he claimed, was the fourth largest industry in the world. He strongly stressed the mutuality of the interests of motionpicture producers and exhibitors. Hit condemnation of film censorship as wrong in principle and anomalous and often absurd in practice, and his call for an organisation to combat adverse legislation, are reported elsewhere. /