I found reference to an additional owner for the Bijou (a tabloid musical comedy house), as well as the Gay (a motion picture house) and the Grand (a vaudeville house), on www.FultonHistory.com whose name I did not see mentioned on CinemaTreasures. A paragraph in The New York Clipper (oldest American theatrical newspaper) said that Fritz Staub and Jake Wells had sold their Bijou Theatre to Frank Rogers and associates of Knoxville around 1913-1914. Local Knoxville newspapers probably carry more details about this transaction as well as what other theatres this businessman may have owned or controlled. Anyone know more about this Knoxville businessman?
I stumbled across this man, as well as several other references to “Frank Rogers (mgr)â€, in NY Clipper while helping someone to find an actor named “Frank Rogers†who was born 1880 as Francis Rudolphus in San Francisco (to Anglo-Irish parents). Most of the other Frank Rogers references I found in NY Clipper were to a “Negro ventriloquist†in vaudeville.
I found reference to an additional owner for the Bijou (a tabloid musical comedy house), as well as the Gay (a motion picture house) and the Grand (a vaudeville house), on www.FultonHistory.com whose name I did not see mentioned on CinemaTreasures. A paragraph in The New York Clipper (oldest American theatrical newspaper) said that Fritz Staub and Jake Wells had sold their Bijou Theatre to Frank Rogers and associates of Knoxville around 1913-1914. Local Knoxville newspapers probably carry more details about this transaction as well as what other theatres this businessman may have owned or controlled. Anyone know more about this Knoxville businessman?
I stumbled across this man, as well as several other references to “Frank Rogers (mgr)â€, in NY Clipper while helping someone to find an actor named “Frank Rogers†who was born 1880 as Francis Rudolphus in San Francisco (to Anglo-Irish parents). Most of the other Frank Rogers references I found in NY Clipper were to a “Negro ventriloquist†in vaudeville.