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

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H. Minot Pitman, Assistant Counsel Ralph A. Kohn, Assistant Secretary and Counsel $250,000. The Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Inc., was also incorporated under the laws of New York on November 26, 1913, with an authorized capitalization of $500,000. Both these concerns were producing companies only, releasing their pictures through Paramount Pictures Corporation, in which neither had any financial in- terest. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation acquired all the assets of Paramount Pictures Corporation and its nine sub- sidiaries through which the exhibitors of the nation were served. At first,Famous Players- Lasky Corporation was largely! a holding company acting through subsidiaries; but on December 29, 1917, these subsidiaries, owned in their entirety by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, were merged: Famous Players Film Co., of New York; Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co., of New York; Oliver Morosco Photoplay Co., of California; Bosworth, Inc., of California; Cardinal Film Corporation, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Artcraft Pictures Corpo- ration, and George M. Cohan Film Corporation, all of New York. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation also owns the following: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, of New Jersey; Peliculas D'Luxo da America do Sul, of New York; Famous Players Film Co., of Great Britain; Feature Films, Ltd., of Australia; Famous Lasky Film Service, Ltd., of Great Britain. The corpo- ration also owns 50 per cent of the stock of the following: Famous Players-Savage Company, Clark Film Corporation, Pickford Film Corporation, and Famous Players-Mary Pick- ford Co., all of New York, and 51 per cent of the stock of the South Pacific Paramount Co., of Chili. Famous Players-LaskyCorpo- ration conducts a world-wide J. B. Ohrt, Comptroller Theodore C. Young Director of Real Estate Bureau [67 ] Frank Meyer, Assistant Secretary Charles S. Hervey, Chief Accountant