Don't Confuse Solax with Gaumont: ...Yours very truly, SOLAX COMPANY, Alice Blache, President.

Don't Confuse Solax with Gaumont: Much misunderstanding has recently resulted from a confusion of the Solax and Gaumont interests. Madame Alice Blache, the president of the Solax Company, has decided to dispel the false impression which may exist in the minds of many by the issue of the following signed statement: Flushing, New York, January 22nd, 1912 Gentlemen: We wish to protest vigorously against the allegations being made to the effect that the Solax Company and the Gaumont Company are allied in business. The only relation which exists is a family one. Mrs. Blache being president of the Solax Co. and Mr. Blache manager of the Gaumont Company of New York. This is the only relation existing between the two companies. The Solax Co. received its charter September 7th 1910, through the attorneys, Goldie & Gumm of 27 William St., New York City, who will give complete information to any person desiring it. It is true that the Solax Co. has in the past rented the Gaumont studio and all developing and printing has been done in the Gaumont plant, but this has been strictly on a cash business basis and under the same condition as many other moving picture concerns have had their work done by the Gaumont Co. We have recently purchased a large piece of land in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where we are constructing our own studio and where we will shortly be installed in very much larger and better quarters than we have at present. We trust that you will attach to this communication the importance which it merits, and believe in our sincerity in making these statements to you. Yours very truly, SOLAX COMPANY, Alice Blache, President.