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J As forecasted In The Item during ^ the past .week, the new Mobile The**e at re will be built op the southeast cor-lt;l1 ner of St. Joseph and St. Louis streets,'r replacing the former Hlgley and Price„ Williams homes, which have been It there since St. Joseph street was a 8 residential thoroughfare and before tho . •‘hill” in St. Louis street was cut down to the paving grade In the eighties.Announcement to this effect wasmade yesterday by Messrs. William I O. Daly and Jacob Tannenbaum, who will together manage the new play-i _ house. The final arrangements wero , concluded on Saturday, enabling public announcement of the enterprise. * The property on which the new theatre will be constructed was purchased on Wednesday by W. O. Daly and I.ouis Lerio, partners in the ex-tensive factory which turns out turpentine cups bearing Mr. Lerlo’s name as their patent mark. Mr. Tannen-baum's interest in the theatre Is as managing partner only, not in the building. At the same time he 'brings e the prestige of long and honorable is management in Mobile to the new i- house and long connection with the i- theatrical producing firm of Klaw * s. Erlanger. The New York impressa -d rios have wired agreement, to use,the r- new theatre for a period of five yearsy for their attractions with stipulations r for a longer period If Messrs. Tan-* nenbaum and Daly desire It. t* Fins Sits For Thsstrs.it The property acquired by Mr. Daly Ll*| has a frontage on St. Joseph street of *** 114 feet and extends Hi feet on BL ,e Louis street. It Is admirably placed for a theatre on a wide thoroughfare, without cur tracks and with a wids street on the aide for parking vehicles ilUnd for exits. It is immediately oppo-►y site the site of the now postoffice, on te which the government it expected to gt soon begin work.n| Mr. Daly proposes to build offices and fr I Mores* in the front and to erect ma - j st ru ot u re whloh will be a credi t tef m®** Idle. The building will be absolutely fireproof and up to date In evert particular. While no statement on tha subject Is obtainable, it is thought by. those In a position to know that plan*1 for the theatre have already been outlined by a local architect. In interior ornamentation and furnishings it ia“ stated that the new' theatre will be ona■m of the handsomest In the South.Who Daty Is.M Will iam O. Daly, while a new appear-nnee among theatrical managers, la not new to the ■business, having spend . several years on the stage wfth Cres-, [j ton Clarke In Shakespearean productions and modem comedies. He developed talent hi this direction whiten student at Sprfng Hill College andlater cultivated the art very success-| fully, retiring, Ijowwer, when his father died, to take up the tatter's business. Since that time Mr. Daly has several times appeared in amateur productions g here, In which he has given valuable IM assistance as stage manager. He Is also well-known as. one of the best ” singers in Mobile and is at the present r time a leader In the Veire IInn Frohslnn and in the fine choir of ( hristnoornnmn1.eenChurch. __ +Mr, Tannenbaum yesterday txpresfitavery high appreciation of tho new a»-soclatlon with Mr. Daly, saying that hehad known his father aw|. mothermany years and that he' was proud of the fact that Mr, Daly *ould take hisplace and continue tho business InMobile which the aged manager had built up In a service of nearly forty years, when he got ready to lay down the cares of running the. new theatre.You can say that I am eminently-satisfied with the turn events have taken.” said the well-known impres-sarlo,” and that the Mobile public will be just as well served by Mr. Daly as they have been by me during the many years 1 have enjoyed citizenship here.*
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The Mobile Item
Mobile, Alabama, US
Sun, Mar 16, 1913
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