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Moving Picture World, New York, October 27, 1917.
Nathan Burkan
(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, Sept. 4, 1926
& Chaplin to Put Signature in Films
Comedian to identify New Releases by Titles
Bearing His Autograph
IN order to enable exhibitors and public to distinguish between
his earlier comedies and those he is producing for the
First National Exhibitors‘ Circuit, Chaplin‘s signature will play
an important part in the promotion and exhibition of all
the comedian‘s future releases.
(...) Moving Picture World, Oct. 27, 1917
„Charlie in a Harem“
Editorial content. „To Act Against Spurious Chaplins
Nathan Burkan, Counsel for First National,
in Letter Outlines Steps He has Taken in Court.
The general manager of the First National
Exhibitors Circuit, J. D. Williams, forwards to the Moving Picture
World a copy of a letter he has received from Nathan
Burkan, counsel of the circuit. Mr. Burkan‘s letter is self-
explanatory:
In an action brought by me in the District Court of the
United States for the Southern District of New York
on behalf of Charles Chaplin vs, Otis Litograph Co., Oscar J.
Lynch (Joseph Seiden, Jack Seiden and Willie
Feinberg trading as the Motion Picture Film Company),
Gunby Brothers, Inc., Bertha Gunby, Charles A.
Gunby and James W. Gunby, the Big A Film Company,
Sam Epstein and Nathan Drapkin, Judge Mayer
granted a temporary restraining order enjoining these
defendants from releasing the photoplays
respectively entitled: Fall of the Rummy-Nuffs, featuring
Charles Chaplin in multiple reel; Dishonor System,
featuring Charles Chaplin in two reels; and One Law for Both,
featuring Charles Chaplin in two reels, and from
removing the same from the jurisdiction of the court, and any
photoplay containing in the title or sub-title thereof
the names Charles Chaplin and Chaplin which was not
in entirety produced by Chaplin.“ (...)
„Another suit was also started in the same court against
the F. & F. Amusement Corporation and William F.
Short, its president, the owner of the Crystal Hall Photoplay
theater, located at 46 East Fourteenth street, New
York City, Manhattan Borough, for exhibiting a spurious
picture entitled The Fall of the Rummy-Nuffs,
featuring Charles Chaplin. An injunction has issued against
against the New Apollo Feature Film Company and
Hugo Maienthau, its president, from releasing Charlie in a Harem
and Charlie Chaplin in a Son of the Gods.“ (...)
NATHAN BURKAN.“
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