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Exhibitors Herald, Chicago, Illinois, July 14, 1917.
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S.L. ROTHAPFEL
President, First National Exhibitors‘ Circuit, Inc.
(...) Exhibitors Herald, July 14, 1917
& AARON JONES
Director, First National Exhibitors‘ Circuit, Inc.
(...) Exhibitors Herald, July 14, 1917
& James D. Williams
Manager, First National Exhibitors‘ Circuit, Inc.
(...) Moving Picture World, May 4, 1918
„Mr. Williams would neither confirm nor deny“
Editorial content. „$1,000,000 SUBSCRIBED TO EXHIBITORS‘
CIRCUIT IN CHICAGO
Funds in Cash for Treasury Secured After Two-Day
Session Places Concern on Sound Financial
Basis; City Is Logical Distribution Center, Says Rothapfel
For the purpose of discussing the plans for the
organization‘s fall campaign and to perfect other details to be
announced soon, the second meeting of the First
National Exhibitors‘ Circuit, Inc., was held at the Congress
Hotel, Chicago, Thursday, June 28.
At the session, which lasted two days, more than
$1,000,000 in cash was paid into the treasury, it
was announced, thus placing the company, which was formed
in New York City April 25, on a sound financial basis.
Logical Distributing Center
S. L. Rothapfel, president of the circuit, said that Chicago
was chosen to hold the meeting for the reason that it is
undoubtedly the logical distribution center of the film industry
in the United States, and for the convenience of the
members coming from St. Louis, Los Angeles, Minneapolis
and other cities. Other meetings will be called in the
Windy City.
The meeting was a most harmonious one, Manager J. D.
Williams announced, and considerable business
was transacted. An immense advertising campaign will be
launched in August, Mr. Williams stated, and he is
negotiating for the services of one of the best-known publicity
men in the industry, who will have charge of that end
of the Exhibitors‘ Circuit.
Represents $30,000,000
When asked whether it was true that the First National
Exhibitors‘ Circuit had secured Charles Chaplin‘s
signature to a contract to produce comedies for them Mr.
Williams would neither confirm nor deny the rumor.
The circuit as it now stands, the manager said, represents $30,000,000 worth of motion picture theaters throughout
America, the twenty-seven members controlling, it is estimated,
more than 400 houses.“ (...)
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