Tivoli Theatre

Quite a few mentions of the Tivoli appear in trade journals through the 1920s. The house was operated by Earle J. Williams from at least as early as 1924. It’s likely that Williams was the person who later opened the Earl Theatre. Knoxville is represented in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory by two theaters: the Lyric, also located on the south side of the square, so possibly the same house as the Tivoli, and the Opera House, no location given. The earliest mention of Knoxville I’ve found in the trades is from 1910, when the January 22 issue of Moving Picture World said that “R. O. Farmer is to open a new moving picture theater here.”