Show HOW FlOW MARCUS LOEW THEATRE ON BUILT tI S i HIS flis BIRTHPLACE One hot afternoon last summer a big touring car ma e its way through the swarming streets of ot the Ne New York east side On the back seat of the motor eat sat a a g rather r-ather short man l scant hair a he heavy mustache keen piercing g black blackeyes blackeyes eyes with a manner manne that fair fairly oozed prosperity At the tho corner of or Fifth Firth street and Avenue B with the sidewalk seething seeth seeth- ing lag with children and in front o of a anum number number num num- ber bel of or ramshackle old buildings th the little little lit lit- tle Ue man called to his chauffeur to stop top Turning to his companion co In the tho th of or the tile auto he s said ld By G George that Is 15 the place where I 1 Iwas Iwas was born I I will build a fl th theatre atre there 5 Within tw twenty four four hours he bs had closed u H t deal for the property 1 and Jn n less les than thana a a. week the wreckers were tearing down don the old buildings s wh where he be was was born three forty years ears ago He Hes He spent three- three quarters of or a million dollars dollars' on the theatre theatre thoa the tho a atre tre which now hOW stands s on oa the sUe site site site-of of ot his d home a monument t to the wonderful ability and the tile d dynamic energy of ot the tile little man in in- in inthe the of at the big machine Marcus Marcua v Loe who h has i Just risen Izen to the pinnacle of or suc success ss and purchased purchased pur pur- chased th the Sullivan circuit |