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Show SALT LAKEWILL BE j GREAT FILM CENTER Universal Company Is to I Establish Its Second Biggest Office Here. DTHERS WILL FOLLOW jrVnnouncement Is Made by Concern's Representatives From the East. i. I With tho arrival last week of C. A. wtegg and N. Paul Stoughtou of the Sew York office of the i nivcrsal Film Manufacturing company, it became inown thai the Salt Lake office is tu ie made next in Important; to the New fork office, at ouce. Hitherto, only final! towns in Utah have been handled from the local distributing headquar-irs, headquar-irs, which wan a brunch of Denver, mt hereafter the territory to be ta-len ta-len in will include Portland, Spokane, Paso, Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake, Butte, Grand Junction and al! the smaller small-er towns in the several states in which Ihose cities are located. I All of these are to be tributary to Halt Lake at oner and, within a short Hme, it Lb expected to include San Pran-Juco Pran-Juco and Los Angeles in this subsidiary 1st, as well, while the executive work I the bi i ' Universal City," the producing pro-ducing center of the company, will come Wider the jurisdiction of the new head (natters here. llegg Widely Known. 1 Mr. 'legg has hern prominently iden-ti.'d iden-ti.'d with the Canadian territory of ic company for a number of years, and eentlv has been working out of tho lew York office as special repreaenta- e. He is one of the best-known men i the film business in the country. He ms established his home here and will le general manager for the western and tort h western territory, Mr. Stnush-tn Stnush-tn is auditor of exchanges out of the few York office and he is here for in purpose of establishing an account-jig account-jig Bvstom for tho new headquarters. IThis movement on the part of the ' I nl versa! company, which is recognized f the "largest film-manufacturing con-prn con-prn in the-uni verso " is believed to be ftfy the beginning of similar movements II, the part of other large motion pic-irp pic-irp concerns. According to Mr. Olegg, ic Universal company has decided that s Becond leading office in the-Ufrited tntes should be located here, because is only twenty-four hours away from ie California producing center of the nnnany and at the same time Is in ' ueh clofer contact with the vast tor iptv easl . west, north and south to hi h it distributes films, than any oth- officq would be. wanson Comes to City. i Recently William H. Swanson, who is I k of the foremost motion picture men An'eri'-a. deridivl to tnako Salt Lake l)i.- central headquarters for his new ac-ofities ac-ofities in the exhibition of pictures. He Mixes New York, where he is now elos-k elos-k up his affairs, finding Salt Lake lore central for his purposes than any (floor city, since the California producing produc-ing center is so quickly reached, as well ;jj the eastern territory. Rttr. Swanson owns the American, Rex Afifl Liberty theaters here, and has many dicer important interests connected with Bf motion picture industry, lljn the opinion of Mr. Olegg and other 4fl ! men, however, other film companies ilVn fnllmv thp Icji.I t:il;on hv tliA TTni- jfrfsal Pilm Manufacturing company and l Mr. Swanson and it is anticipated tjnar the day is not far distant when this will he the most important executive and distributing city for the motion picture ftldustry in America. |