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Show PICTURE HOUSE PROMOTER PIFS A FTFR STROKE Harry A. Sims. ."7 years of age. pioneer motion picture man and theatrical manager, died Pec. 19th. at his residence in Sr.lt Lake City, of paralysis, the climax of a stroke suffered last July. Mr. Sims was at once the owner and managVr of a show in this city. While confined to his home most of the time after receiving the stroke. Mr. Sims had been steadily gaining strength and it was not until five or six hours before the end that his condition was regarded as grave. Mr. Sims, who was born :n Eden-burg. Eden-burg. Indiana, came to Utah in 1S93. accepting a position here with the American Fruit express, then em-harked, em-harked, about fifteen years ago in the motion picture business in Og-den. Og-den. being one of the first men in the west to open a film show house. He conducted a picture show house in Ogden for a few years, then he and his associates built the American theatre in Salt Lake, this being followed fol-lowed by the construction of the Liberty and Strand picture houses. For several years Mr. Sims was manager of the American. He then sold his interests to the W. H. Swanson company and operated the Isis picture house. Two years ago he went east with a picture of his own after disposing of his Salt Lake interests and houses in Garfield and Milford. He returned home early last summer and in July received the stroke from which he was unable to make recovery. |