The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-03-16
SECOND Film
EXCHANGE TO
LOCATE HERE
Mutual Film Corporation Recognizes
Manifold Advantages offered
in Cairo.
OTHER WING OF MILITANT
INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS
Mutual Now Operating 54 Offices in
U. S. With z More in the
Canadas.
OTHER WING OF MILITANT
INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS


Fred A. Keller. general manager
of the st. Louis branch Of the Mu-
utal Film Corporation was in the
city yesterday looking over the field
with view to locating subsidiary
branch of the st. Louis office in
Cairo.
Mr.. Keller mas been frequently a
Cairo visitor in the past but eams
down FOR a single purpose on this
occasion.
1t only required several hours for
him to ascertain what facts he wish
ed to know.
Mr.. Keller stated when leaving
! that the matter had already been
taken up with the New York Office
but pressure of business had com
PEELED him to delay making the iil-
vestigation.
He was agreeably surprised when
he found out that the express offices
in Cairo were open every day in the
week and in addition to ready ac-
cess for shipping purposes being
available at all hours of the day and
might. He further learned that many
OF the customers now being served
out Of the st. Louis office could BIC
served to better advantage out OF an
Ioff.ce located here which meant q
great and valuable saving of time
tfn- whien the films were In transit
to and from office to customer and
vice versa.
He stated as he was leaving tfat
he would probably send d man down
Tuesday or Wednesday who would
open tho office He added that il
business here justified his expecta-
tion that franchise would be
granted to the local Office which
made it buying exchange AMI
wholly Independent of the st. Louis.
or any other office, the reports going
direct 20 headquarters in New York.
This acquisition is merely another
tribute to the geographical and Un-
lequallaJ shipping advantages offered
In a Cairo location While the loea-
tion of a film exchange in Cairo
only means the employment of five
Iperson3 who are the recipients of
large salaries, 1t means four or five
moro added to the populations it
means that many more people to
lpatronizc merchants: it mean that
many more persons who will want
homes or will seek board and roors;
it means additional advertisement
for Cairo as no city less than I5,-
600 population possesses an c<-
Ichangc: it means another suite of
lofficcs, consumers Of light and usels
of telephones and telegraph besides
the big STEADY REVENGE accruing to
/ the express eompanes-every little
bit helps
This means the second film ex-
change to locate in Cairo, the Other.
being the Universal Film aud sup
lply Company located in the Ialii-
day Estate building.
The Mutual Film Corporation is
the other wing of the great inde-
pendent film association of manu-
facturers on the western hemis-
pherc. The Mutual Corporation is
now operating 5i film exchanges in
the United States and : in the Cam
adas.
1t is the Mutual Corporation
which mas corps of camera men
with Gen. Villa in Mexico, the squad
Joining mis- army at chihuahua aud
which will be with him at Torreon
!, to chronicle in motion picture ae-
tual Mexican battle scenes Thoic
cameras are equipped with bullet
proof steel shields protecting the
operator but not the lens on the Ta-
: chine.