GREAT MOVIE MERGER
BRITAIN AND AMERICA ASSETS EXCEED £30,000,000 By Cable.—Press Association .-— Copyright. NEW YORK, Monday. Mr. Clifford Hawley, president of l First National Pictures, announced toj day the combination of British motion I picture enterprises controlled by Lord 1 Ashfield and Lord Beaverbrook with tieir British subsidiary companies with First National Pictures and the Stanley Company, of America, for the production, distribution and exhibition of films throughout the United Kingdom. The combined assets are said to exceed £30,000,000. The new company plans to erect a cinematograph theatre in the West End of London with seating capacity for 5,000 people. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 227, 14 December 1927, Page 9
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