New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1928, Page 5

oo JE ELAE B et AR | to the Pacific Including the recently |a Week. u of theaters, seating “ mately 5,000 each, of which the fol- ¢ |lowing are nearing completion and ’ will open this fall: In Brooklyn, on Flatbush avenue at Nevins street; in Louis, on Grand avenue and Wash- T . ington boulevard; in 8an Francisco, Pm Pl H A on Market street, AYDOUSES HAVe AD-| ™ "$1.005,000 For Removations set aside by Fox Theaters corpora- tion, Mr. ox stated, to renovate and (Speclal to the Herald) theaters, particularly with regard to ‘New York, July 24—Poli's thea- | the installation of movietone projec- - A budget of $1,000,000 has beel; praised Value of $26,000,000 S modernize the entire Poli chain of ters in New England today are in | tion apparatus. | the hands of the Fox Theaters cor-| By the acquisition of the Poli poration. | chain for Fox Theaters corporation, The Poli chain, with an appraised | Willlam Fox has added one more value of $26,000,000, was the old-!great accomplishment to his spec- est privately-owned theater circuit ! tacular record of achievement. In| in America, held outright and |25 years he has risen from poverty operated successfully the last 30 |and business obscurity to a posi- Years by Sylvester Z. Poli. The|tion of great wealth and domina- chain has a seating capacity of ap- |tion in the motion picture industry. proximately 45,000, Twenty-five years ago he owned This entire property, through its|one small theater in Brooklyn and | purchase by Fox Theaters corpora- |the gross receipts for a “capacity | | uion, now becomes a part of the |house” were $7.30 a day. Today the | Fox organization which controls a |receipts of his theaters, not includ- chain of theaters from the Atlantic |ing the Poli chain, total $800,000 | His first theater was a ecquired §100,000,000 West Coast |Penny arcade in a vacant store, To- Theaters, Inc., operates a $50,000,- gaged on a five-year $100,000,000 & hcain of theaters extending from production program of motion pic- [€oast to coast. His first theater had | ture entertainment, maintains a |2 capacity of 146 persons. Today distribution system covering the [the Roxy theater alone handles world with branch offices in the |More than 6,000 each performance 125 principal cities of 40 countrics, |and all the theaters under his con- and is producing movietone. |trol accommodate a total of more Poll Rose from Obscurity than 400,000 each performance. The rise of Sylvester Z. Poli, now | FoX Borrowed $66.66 to Start 68 years old and an Italian. by| FOx's original theater venture birth, from a poor boy to the out- |COSt him $1,666.66 and he had to right owner of this chain of thea- |POrrow $66.66 to complete the doal. ters reads like fiction. His business T0day he heads the $40,000,000 | methods and his policy of public |'0X Film corporation, the $100,. entertainment have earned for him 000,000 West Coast Theaters, Ins,, the sobriquet of “the P. T. Barnum |the $25,00.000 Fox Theaters cor- of the movies.” The operation of |POration the $26,000,000 Poli chain his many theaters and the manage. |and has a personal fortune of §35,- ment of his extensive realty hold- /0000 no board of directors. } Under his supervision his theater | holdings expanded until today they | represent a leading chain of play- | houses in New England, These then. | 00078¢ Lot and John Hennesscy ters, now passing to the ownership| Are Bulwarks of Unitcd States In and control of I'ox Theaters corpor- ¢ )] ation, comprise the following: ~ In| L°Vis Cup Play. Hartford, the Capitol and the Pal-| Paris, July 24 (®—George Lott ace; in New Haven, the Hyperion, and John Hennesscy in the singes the Bijou and the Palace; in Meri. 201 the same pair in the doubles, den, the East Main street and the |2PPear certain to be the exclusive West Main strect: in Waterbury, the | 0Pe8 of the United States in the Btrand and the Palace; in Bridge- |Davis Cup challenge round asainst port, the Palace, the Poli, the Ma. |ITance’s far-farmed musketeers at day he owns the largest theater in | 000 studio in Hollywood now en- |the world, the Roxy, and controls | Jestic and the Lyric; in Norwich, the | the end of this week. Broadway: in Springfield, the Pal- | ace; in Worcester, the Plaza, the |& Poli and the Palace. The Poli theater chain, being pri- | With “Big Bill” Tilden apparently efinitely out of the running through ineligibility and Francis T. Hunter, cond ranking American, still rest- ! ment fleld, has been ing under his defeat in the inter- vately owned and operated, had no hr stock for sale and Issued no state- |7one fnals at i ianis o ments of its business to the public. TN nents. 5 1 Hennessey probably will bear the en- Fox Theaters corporation, fts mew iy 5y ae ol o o oranch. owner, is a publlely owned corpora- | “'p o T acogte, Wimbleton singles tion, with its stock listed on the New |champion, to1d tho Associated Prom Yox:k curb exchange, |that “it seems a pity that Tilden is Fox Theaters corporation, which |10t to play, but I don't think we Row enters the New England amuse- | pronchmen need waste sympathy In business |oier the present team.’ many years as successor to the chain |~ T don't think there s any of theaters formerly conducted Y| danger,” sald Henri Cochet, the Me. Fox. In the last year Fox Thea- | |French hard court titleholder, ters corporation has participated in chestily but without boastfulness. the purchase of the Roxy theater, | Experts agree with Cochet. They New York, the largest in the world, [concede the Americans nothing but 83 well a8 in the acquisition and jan outside chance of regaining the eonstruction of & coast-to-coast | historie tennis trophy. GETS BIG THRILL —— |Commander Theodore Van Beek, Skipper of Liner President Roose- velt, Visits Home Land. | Amsterdam, July 24 P—Com- {mander Theodore Van Leek, doughty young skipper of the liner Presi- dent Roosevelt ,which is playing |such an important rolc in the Ames- ican Olympic Armada, is getting as big @ thrill out of the visit to Am- |sterdam s anybody aboard the vessel. Thirty-five years ago, Van Beek, then a tow-headed little boy, left Amsterdam s a cabin boy on a Duteh ship. He sailed the Seven Scas, roamed continents, became an American citizen and reserve com- mander of the American navy. However, his thoughts often went | back to the land of his fathers. He never had an opportunity to return | until last Friday morning, when he | sailed his big liner right up into the heart of his native city with the American Olympic team under his care. It was a proud captain who after the Olymplans had been safely es- tablished, lald aside his gold braid for civilian clothes and revived | youthful memories. Divorce Mill Inquiry Now Started at Nice Nice, France, July 24 (®—A re- port was current herc today that following the Paris American di- vorce mill inquiry a similar invest- tigation had been started here. The dictrict attorney's office was said to have requested from the local courts |all dockets of American divorces with a view of proceeding again »l any such irregularites as the Paris probe showed. 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