Easy Street Clippings 60/81
Robert Francis Moore, Motion Picture, New York, March 1917.
FILM PIRATE ARRESTED
Film Exchangeman and Theater Owner Arrested in Brooklyn
on Charge of Stealing Print of Chaplin Comedy
Sidney A. Huffman, owner of a film exchange at 729 Fifth
Avenue, and Joseph Quadrini, an exhibitor owning
a theater at Smith and Hackett streets, Brooklyn, were
arrested after a police raid on Huffman‘s place by
detectives and bound over to the grand jury after a police
court hearing before Judge Corrigan.
The arrests followed investigations by secret service men
attached to the Mutual Film Corporation, from whose
offices a print of Charlie Chaplin‘s comedy „Easy Street“ has
disappered, conservatively estimated as worth $25,000
by the officers of the corporation.
(...) Motography, Oct. 13, 1917
„The first question“
Editorial content. „Falling – On and Off the Screen
By Robert Francis Moore
,CAN you do a fall?‘ That‘s the first question asked of an
aspirant to screen comedy.“ (...)
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