The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04
THEATRE AT PARK
JAKE WELLS TALKS OF PLANS FOR
 MONTGOMERY.
Manager of Numerous Amusement En- tcrprises VIII Begin Building Piay- house nt Once-Many Changes
 mre to Be Made.

Jake Wells of Richmond. Va, the we'll known sLa. manager or ;n nSh sontheqn cities, while In Montgomery yestSTday announced that the work or puiloinS his Casino Theatre at Electric FaIk be opened to the public on May 10. |. Mir Wells spent all of yesterday Tn Montgomery and left on an evening bv Hurh Cordoza, manager of the Wells erterprises in Atlanta, and Joseph H. Maguire an expert on amusement ue- vices The n,orriyS party came frsn tG MoSile where Mir Wells Is preparing 10 euiid nsho-
 Messrs: Wells, cordoza, Mcguire a,,n6 and Theatre, spent several hours yesterday at Electric Park. The Wells syndicate has secured control of all of the amuses ments at Electric Park for term or years under contract with the Mont ronery Traction Company. and NIT. Wells and his associates desired to 80 fo making extensive improvements in
 Mr. Maruire. who accompanied MT. Wells, has considerable repusaatiSSn Sn S asii1 return to Montgomery shortly to place certain new amusements In EIectTic Park, which, according 10 MT Mei1s to ,,hs most modern standard of amusement resorts Mir. Mcguire is the inventor of "A Trip to switzerland" and other ike devices He has been construc- tnr at Dreamland, Coney Island. and Willow Grove, Philadelphia, and IS un. fer contract to perfect arrangements at parks controlled by MT. Wells ana ms
 :sour theatre at Electric Park" said Mr Wells will be located on the same sgCt as shs s9rssf RrssffnRs RaiiWay The park railway station, understand. IS to pc built about the rear of the bowling alley so as to accommooste ooth ;rha ol8 station will, of course, be raZed to make room for the theatre. The mouse will be modern In every respect anu wIIi seat about 1000 persons
 .ssyVe expect to give Montgomery ,-iass of summer attractions never seen here before. The same companies tnat we engage for our Richmono' Atlahtd ana Birn1ingham houses will play at Electric Park, and you may say tnaI a the Casino at Electric Park VIII pc open every. night, during the s,,, summer, m ro beginning May. 1b. Inere VIII Oe III" dark nights there. ,...,.
 we will put up several new build fn9s at the park and we VIII make the place as attractive as We Sonth n5'e Tt ia hardly worth while for me to say that there will be no immoral features Ana as for intoxicating liquors and gaIno- ling devices, our reputation as clean arnusement purveyors should be sum- cient guarantee to the public that they will not be tolerated
 Asked about the report that he ex- pected to build a downtown theatre i, MontRomery to take the place or the Bijou, on which he has long term lease, MT. Wells smiled and re- piled that he had not started any re- re- norts about the proposed new theatre and consequently did not think It worth while to discuss them.
 i've will have a theatre in Mont gomery next year., said MT WeIis' "and it will present the same attrac- finns that we have been giving in our Birmingham, Atlanta and Richmond houses--a much better class of attrac- tione than we have been able to send to the Bijou this season.
 'eWiIl it be a new theatreF
 T am not to discuss the new thea ire until our arrangements are perfect ad We are not. given to discussing that we nav do. When we have done something then we will tell the public
 Mr. wells said that the Bijou The atre in Mobile. which is to be built al inc corner of St. Louis and Conception Streets, would be completed and opened to the public on September lI, Labol Day. This lot was purchased for $lS' 800 and handsome playhouse IS to D. built there for the purpose or alter hating attractions with the BiJou The atre of Montgomery 4,
 when asked for lis views as 10 m reported invasion of the South by th' Shuberts, or Independents, with chain of Lyric theatres, Mir. Wells DO UteIy but firmly declined to discus it, saying that he had no connection with the Shuberts or the propose9 chain of Lyric theatres.