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Show Photoplay Officials Visit Salt Lake -i OS OS O! Plan to Establish 5000 New Theatres - , i I YJOV1NG lJ1-'fre officials who visited Salt Lake yesterday. Left to right: J. D. Williams of New York, genera' j j i'l manarer of the First National Exhlbiters' Circuit; II. O. Schwalbe of Philadelphia, secretary and treasurer: j j David P. Kowells of Salt Lake, foreign representative, and N. H. Gordon of Boston, moving picture magnate and j owner of thirty-nine New England picture houses. j , ' Z"'J ' . ' ' ' - ' ' ' , ' ' ' I I I c 1 jl : '. s it , , I k , - 'r & Moving Picture Men on Way From Los Angeles to Eastern Cities. SALT LAKE may soon have a branch distributing office of tho j First National Exhibitors ' mov- j iug picture circuit, according I to J, B. Williams of New York, general manager of the company. Mr. Williams is in Salt, Lake with H. 0. Swalbe of Philadelphia, secretary sec-retary and treasurer of the company; com-pany; David P. 1-JoAYolls of Salt, Lake, foreign representative, and N. If. Gordon Gor-don of Bostou? a large stockholder. The party is reruming from Los Angeles to the east on a tour of the principle cities of the country for the purpose of soon establishing 5UU0 mew moving picture theaters. Mr. Williams said yesterday that tho company has recently completed the incorporation of two new moving pic-uure pic-uure corporationse, one to Vie known as .he First National Theater company, which will operate, in the United States and Canada ; the other, the First JCa-.ional JCa-.ional Associated Pictures, J ucorporat-,'d, ucorporat-,'d, which will extend its operations Jiroughout' the world. The two companies com-panies represent a combined capitalization capitaliza-tion of $16,000,000. Mr. Williams said. W. H. Swansou of Salt Lake and IT. T. Xolan of Denver are stockholders in die organization and hold its exclusive rights in the west. Mr. Howells is visiting friends here, with his wife, a daughter of George M. Cannon of Salt Lake. With his wife he has recently returned from Europe, where they visited many of the larger cities and saw many different phases of the reconstruction problems which are facing the continent. In speaking of his project Mr. Williams Wil-liams said yesterday: "The moving picture industry, now rated as the fifth largest in the world, is fa&t growing. Salt Lake seems to be a good western center for moving pictures. Our circuits control tlie pictures pic-tures of Charlie Chaplin, T. W. Griffith, Grif-fith, Katherine McDonald, Norma and Constance Talmadge, Edith .Stewart and will soon have Charles Ray under a two years' contract.'' The visitors were guests yesterday at a special organ recital at the tabernacle, tab-ernacle, which was arranged by Bishop David A. Smith. Tracy Y. Cannon played for them and showed them tlue organ. Another prominent moving picture man who arrived in Salt Lake yesterday yester-day was John W . Mahon of New York, who was the first man to erect studios for rental purposes. Mr. Mahon has just completed supervising construction of tho new Unity studios, which cover eighty-five acres of ground near Culver Cul-ver City, Cal. |