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Show jTHEATER MANAGERS ' AGHEE TDJflGMIIZE Vaudeville and Motion Picture Pic-ture Officials Decide to Prevent Abuses. Nine managers of motion picture and vaudeville theaters in Salt Lake met in the office of the American theater last j evening for the purpose of discussing I the local amusement situation, and before be-fore they adjourned they agreed to incorporate in-corporate as charter members in an organization or-ganization which contemplates the taking tak-ing in of all theater managers in Utah. Quite an array of matters of interest to the business were discussed informally, in-formally, the sense of the meeting being that one and all were distinctly opposed to the exhibition and exploitation of a certain class of pictures and kindred u:t$, and that it was time representatives representa-tives of the business got together with the object in view of curbing the wiid-catting wiid-catting of certain films and standing together to-gether upon various problems which come up trom time to time in the theater thea-ter business generally. Among the subjects discussed were censorship, unfair competition and methods meth-ods of advertising. By way of a preliminary, those present pres-ent undertook to meet with the delegate of the national organization of musicians, musi-cians, who is due to arrive in Salt Lake this morning to straighten out the pending pend-ing disagreement between the American , orvbestra and management, j Among those present were "W. H. Svranson and H. E. Ellison of the Swan-' Swan-' son theateres, George E. Carpenter, I Paramount-Empress; Edward P. Levy, Orpheum; Frank B. Newman, Pantages; K. L. Steam, Liberty; Robert Sanders, j Bex; Mr. Mehesy of the Mehesy theater, thea-ter, and manager Shipler of the Empire. |