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Show Doug to Develop Market j For American Film That American film prod ur srs srs rrsstly )Mrsted In dSveloptnc lh foreign market Is svtdenced hjr ths sn- nQuncamsnt today thst Iouajlas Fairbanks Fair-banks Is preps ring- to road show hts ; near film vsrston of Robin Hood In ' , fcurops ss wsll as In this country. i Alrsady Dous; hss sent Hsrry D. Puck Is y of this city to Nsw Tork to s- ; tabtish hssdquartsrs thers for ths Amsrlcsn road show rmpany, and yesterday yes-terday Pets nmllh followed him to taks ehargs af saploltst Ion. Now romss ths, ststemsnt from officials of ths Kstr-banks Kstr-banks company that In ths latter part of this month flarenra EHksan, ss-sistsnt ss-sistsnt to John Fairbanks, who is genera gen-era 1 manager of Oouars ",m affairs, is to lesvs for overseas with Robert FlO-rsy. FlO-rsy. foreign puhliotty director for Mary snd Houg. to manar a year's tour of ths British isles snd coatlnsatsl Europe, Eu-rope, with Rohln Hood. Ths tour will be In thsrgs of Erlrk ; sen. and Florsy will at as intsrpratsr and have chares of pur.li.-ity and 1 ploltstton. It hss not yet been decided, j Srrordlnar to Frlcksen, where their heaouartsrs will be. but In all llkeii- hood London will serve as ths center for handling Or eat Rrltaln. white Farts wilt be headquarters for Furope proper. "All negotiations. Including srrsnse- j ments for the rentsl of tbeatres.' ssld rv-usr. "will bs msde by Krieksen ovsr there Bo fsr ss I know this Is ths I first tlms a photoplsy. Amertrsa on K u ropes n. hss ever been rosd showed , sbroad. If Is our Intention to Introduce typlrally American methods of show- raanshlp in ths hops of arousing as i greet Interest In American pictures In Europe as there is st horns" Hpedal runs of the FsirKsnks film will be put on In tb- prlnclpl cities of ths British Isles France. ftpaJn. Bel-glum. Bel-glum. Italv. Pwltxartsnd. the Srsnd'na-vtan Srsnd'na-vtan countrlss. Holland, and possibly Osrmaay. I J v . af |