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Show WELL KNOWN U. S. THEATRICAL MAN DIES PHILADET..PIUA, Nov. 13. Samuel F. Nirdlinger, known in theatrical and public pub-lic life as Samuel F. Nixon, and born in Fort Wayne, Ind.. 70 years ago, died at his home here tonight. He was ono of the mo?t prominent theatrical men Jn the country. In 1881, with J. Fred Zimmerman, he formed the firm of Nixon & Zimmerman, Zimmer-man, which acquired a chain of theaters in this and other cities. Fifteen years later Nixon and Zimmerman, in association associa-tion with Klaw and Erlanger, Charles Frohman and Alf Hay man, organized a theatrical syndicate, which booked more than sixty theaters in large cities of the United Statos. |