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Jack Skirball/Dan Hancock, Film Daily, N. Y., April 27, 1933.

Tillie´s Punctured Romance Scenes

& Mae West

      Cover by Lt. James Lunnon

      „What Price Decency?“ in this issue

(...) Broadway and Hollywood Movies, June 1933

& Norma (Dorothy Burgess) slips out of her

clothes in Klaus Van Leyden‘s (Alan Hale) cabin; in the

Equitable Picture „What Price Decency?“

(...) Broadway and Hollywood Movies, June 1933

„Our hit picture”

Editorial content. „,I Remember When...‘

      By Jack Skirball

      as told to

      Dan Hancock

      of The Film Daily Editorial Staff

      ,This story dates back in 1916 when exhibitors and

salesmen had plenty to complain about,‘ said

Jack Skirball, general sales manager for Educational.

,James P. Clark and Richard Rowland had

the Alco Films franchise for the middle west and my brother,

Joe Skirball, controlled the Cincinnati territory

for that company.‘

      ,I was a salesman for Joe and received 10 per cent

commission for all our sales. Out hit picture was Marie Dressler

in Tillie´s Punctured Romance, but as it was number 15

on our line-up, every exhibitor was forced to play the other 14

before he played Tillie. Then if his patrons demanded

a return engagement of the picture, he would have to again

play the other 14, which included Manon Lescaut, Olga

Petrova in The Tigress, The Education of Mr. Pipp and Michael Strogoff. The same thing held true if he wanted a third

or fourth showing of Tillie. William K. Howard of the Forest

theater and Ike Libson of the Family knew every scene

and title in every one of the 15 pictures forward, backward

and sideways.“ (...)

Redaktioneller Inhalt. „Unser Knüller war Marie Dressler

in Tillie´s Punctured Romance.“

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