The Count Clippings 38/50
Moving Picture World, New York, May 19, 1917.
SEEK TO REPLEVIN FILMS,
J. H. McLean and John Waters, of the Lyric
Theater, Defendants.
Charlie Chaplin, or rather films in which Charley is the star,
are the cause of a district court action started yesterday
by the Mutual Film corporation against J. H. McLean and John
Waters, operators of the Lyric theater.
The film company seeks to replevin three films held
by the theater owners. The plaintiff alleges that the
films were stolen from its office on October 5. Five hundred
dollars‘ damages also is asked of the defendants.
The films are „The Count,“ „The Fireman“
and „The Vagabond.“ The celluloid comedies are worth
$160 apiece, the petition sets out.
(...) Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 19, 1916
& Chicago Film Pirate Convicted and Paroled
(...) Motion Picture News, May 19, 1917
& Film Pirate Convicted
(...) Motography, May 19, 1917
„A charge of film piracy“
Editorial content. „Film Pirate Convicted.
Herman Abramovitz, alias Herman Abrams, was convicted
before Judge Robert E. Crowe, in the Chicago
criminal court on May 2, on a charge of film piracy preferred
by the Mutual Film Corporation. Abramovitz was
found guilty of having received and sold three stolen Charlie
Chaplin comedies, The Count, The Vagabond and
The Fireman.
These films were abstracted from the vaults of the Mutual
Corporation in Chicago last September, and were
disposed of by Abramovitz to a film dealer in Omaha, who
in turn sold them to McLean and Walters, proprietors
of the Lyric theater in Sioux City, Ia.
The property was recovered in October by E. W. Stoddard,
assistant general counsel of the mutual, at Sioux City.
Abrams was arrested and bound over to the Cook County grand
jury, which indicted him.“
Lyric Theatre, 617 Fifth Street, Sioux City.
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