The story of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (1919)

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Salt Lake City Exchange Louis Marcus District Manager Salt Lake City Exchange Personnel of Salt Lake City Exchange F. B. McCracken Branch Manager Salt Lake City •Branch No. 3—No. 415 West Eighth Street, Des Moines, Iowa; R.C.Li Beau, branch manager. With a force of 26 persons the Des Moines exchange is enabled to take care of the motion picture theaters in the capital city and 80 per cent of the Hawkeye State, with a total population of 1,800,000. The exchange occupies one floor, 3500 square feet in area, in a modern building. This territory has the unique distinction of having the largest automobile patronage of any in America. Those prosperous Iowa farmers will travel miles with their families to see a good motion picture. Even the smallest towns are educated to the very best in pictures. Paramount- Artcraft pictures are, therefore, very popular. Branch No. 4—No. 208 S.Thirteenth Street, Omaha, Neb.; C. L. Peavey, branch manager. At this exchange a force of 21 persons serves 85 per cent of Nebraska and 10 per cent of Iowa, with a population of 1,400,000. Omaha has beautiful modern theaters and in the matter of motion pictures is more pro- gressive than many a larger city. But outside of the city the territory of this exchange has only very small communities. District No. 7—C. E. Holcomb, district manager; headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. In the south, the S. A. Lynch Enterprises and the Famous Players-Lasky Cor- poration co-operate in the task of distribution. Branch No. 1—No. 51 Luckie Street, Atlanta, Ga.; R. E. Bradford, branch manager. This exchange, with a force of 43 persons, serves one of the largest territories in the country. It em- braces all Tennessee except the city of Memphis, all Florida except Pensacola, all Alabama except Mobile and Tuscaloosa, all of Georgia and 40 per cent of South Carolina. The population of 10,000,000 includes a large proportion of negroes, with whom "Fatty" Arbuckle and Paramount Mack-Sennett comedies are great favorites. Highly imaginative pictures do not "get over" in a colored audience. The exchange occupies two floors of 12,000 square feet area in a modern building. Branch No. 2—No. 814 Perdido Street, New Orleans, La.; H. F. Wilkes, branch manager. With a force of 32 persons Branch Manager Wilkes serves the southern metropolis, and a rather large expanse of territory including all of Louisiana and Mississippi, a small part of Texas and the cities of Memphis, Tenn.; Main Office New Orleans Exchange -■- Exterior of New Orleans Exchange " 40 H. F. Wilkes, Manager New Orleans Exchange