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FIRST NATIONAL EXHIBITORS' CIRCUIT 15
Exhibit i (Continued)
Name
Business Activities on Feb. i, 1927
Territory of First Nat'l Franchises
Percentage of Cost Allotted
Amount of
Capital Stock
Subscribed
Big Feature Rights
3 theaters in Louis
Kentucky, Tennes
2%
Si ,000
Corp., (Fred Levy)
ville
see
Louisville
An exchange
Tom Moore
4 theaters in Wash
Maryland, Dela
3%
Ji.SOO
Washington, D. C.
ington, D. C.
ware & D. C.
Rialto Theaters Corp.,§
Rialto Theater
N. Y. State
ll%
$5.5oo
(S. L. Rothafel)
New York City
2 franchises
Empire Theater Co.*
13 theaters in Conn.
Me., N. H., Vt..
7%
$3,500
(Nathan Gordon)
& Mass.
Mass., R. I., and
2 franchises
Boston
Jake Wells, Inc.*
Richmond, Va.
An exchange
Conn.
18 theaters in Va.,
Va., N. C, S. C,
3%
$1 ,500
Tenn., and Georgia
Ga., Fla., & Ala.
Dominion Amusement
1 theater in Ottawa
Canada east of Fort
3%
$1,500
Co., Ltd.
Williams and Port
Ottawa
Arthur
W. H. Swanson*
5 theaters, Colorado
Colo., Wyoming,
3%
$1,500
(Harry Nolan)
An exchange
N. M., Utah, &
Denver
Southern Idaho
Frank G. Hall
2 theaters in Pater
New Jersey
3%
$1,500
New Jersey
son, N. J. An exchange
Rowland & Clark*
9 theaters in Pa.
West Va.& Western
4%
$2,000
Pittsburgh
Pa.
A. H. Blank*
6 theaters in Neb.
Iowa, Kansas, and
5%
$2,500
Des Moines
and Iowa An exchange
Nebraska
Central Film Co.*
6 theaters in Chicago
Illinois
6M%
$3,250
(Jones & Ascher)
An exchange
Chicago
Harry Schwalbef
Eastern Pa.
4H %
$2,250
Philadelphia
Western Theater Co.,
1 theater in Van
Canada west of and
2)4%
$1,250
Ltd.
couver, B. C.
including Port
Vancouver, B. C.
Arthur and Fort Williams
Total number of theaters — 117
The rights for the foreign distribution of the company's pictures were sold to Australasian Films, Incorporated.
* Also distributed pictures other than those supplied by First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Incorporated.
t Mr. Schwalbe with the Mastbaum interests of Philadelphia controlled the Peerless Feature Film Company. These interests also controlled the Stanley Booking Corporation and 50 or 60 theaters in Pennsylvania.
§ Turner and Dahnken had a 60 % interest in this franchise and J. D. Williams a 20 % interest.
The reasons for the formation of First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Incorporated, were probably best presented by the following statements made in Federal Trade Commission Docket No. 835 against Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, in which case testimony about the formation of First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Incorporated, occupied a prominent position. As a result of certain strong personal rivalries and because of the anticipated keen competition between First National Exhibitors* Circuit,