City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s

by Otto Friedrich

And so it was that Willie Bioff, newly appointed as Browne’s international representative, summoned the Chicago Exhibitors Association and told its representatives that they would henceforth need two union projectionists in each theater. “My God! That will close up all my shows,” said Jack Miller, labor representative for the theater owners. “If that will kill grandma, then grandma must die,” said Bioff, according to his subsequent testimony.