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Moving Picture World, New York, October 16, 1915

Wurts Bros. (photographer), 145 West 45th Street, New York,

1935, New York Public Library

„At Levy‘s offices, Room 702, at 145 West Forty-fifth street“

Editorial content. „Decree Pro Confesso in Duping Suit

      A. G. Levi Practically admits He Offered for Sale Chaplin

      Prints – P. M. Pierson Enters General Denial of Charges.

      THE Moving Picture World told in its issue last

week of the action taken by attorneys representing the Keystone

and Essanay companies against parties charged

with having duped films in which appeared Charles Chaplin.“ (...)

      „It will be recalled the suit was a bill in equity

charging the defendants with pirating a Charlie Chaplin film,

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affidavit charged that Levi had offered for sale and had sold

a number of Chaplin films, alleging he had bought

them abroad and could dispose of them at greatly reduced rates.

Letters were shown disclosing negotiations with certain

houses in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. The Mutual joined in the suit

as the sole distributor of Keystone photoplays.

      In his answer, Levi admitted so much of the charges that

a decree was ordered pro confesso, which means

practically that he admitted the allegation and promised not

to do it any more. Quite a number of reproductions

of Chaplin films were seized at Levy‘s offices, Room 702,

at 145 West Forty-fifth street, by United States

Marshal McCarthy. Other will be seized as soon as located.“ (...)

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