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

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Main Office, Denver Exchange M. H. Colin Manager Denver Office Pensacola, Fla.;and Mobile and Tuscaloosa, Ala., with a total population of 3,950,000, a large proportion of which is colored. The towns are mostly small. Branch No. 3—No. 1902 Commerce Street, Dallas, Texas; T. O. Tuttle, branch mana- ger. Dallas exchange employs a force of 44 persons and occupies two floors, aggre- gating 10,000 square feet, for the territory served is large and is coming to the front very fast. The oil boom creates towns over night ; but, alas! it also demobilizes them in the same length of time, occasion- ally. There are many motion picture shows in tents, and still more in the open air in summer ; for the tem- perature down that way gets quite ambitious at times. Dallas serves nearly all the great Lone Star State and most of Arkansas. Branch No. 4—Charlotte, N. C; Serves all of North Carolina, 60 per cent of South Carolina, and nine counties in Northeastern Tennessee. Total population, 1,800,000. Branch No. 5—Oklahoma City; Joseph H. Gilday, branch manager. Serves all of Oklahoma, except ten counties, the northern Panhandle of Texas, and Northwest Arkansas. Total population, 2,000,000. District No. 8- -Louis Marcus, district manager; head- quarters, Salt Lake City, Utah. Branch No. 1—No. 133 East Second Street South, Salt Lake City, Utah.; F. B. McCracken, branch manager. In expanse of territory, District No. 8 leads all the rest. Its boundaries are the Canadian border on the north and Mexico on the south. The territory served by Branch No. 1 reaches Personnel of Denver Exchange David Prince, branch manager from the Canadian border to the northern line of Arizona and from Green River, Wyo., to Elko, Nev., taking in all of Utah, 60 per cent of Idaho, and 10 per cent each of Wyoming and Nevada, with an aggre- gate population of 678,000, for the region is largely mountainous and desert waste. Branch Mgr. McCracken has a force of 27 housed in a building with a floor area of 4000 square feet, which is ample for his needs. Some shipments have to be made by stage to small mining camps which can afford to in- dulge in the luxury of motion pictures only once a week or, per- haps, once a fortnight. But wherever there is a motion picture machine C. M. Hill Branch Manager Portland Exchange Personnel of" Portland Oregon, Exchange Exterior of Portland, Oregon, Exchange