The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-02
CANDY RET|RES
FROM THEATER
Business at Lima Where He
Made a Success and Will
Go to Florida.

A recent issue Of the Republican
Gazette published at Lima. o.. con-
tains the following article about
viii B. Candy. Sr. former resident
Of Clarksburg:
The two oldest motion picture
houses In Lima yesterday came I'M
der one ownership, when the Dupue
Theater Company, Of which G.. o.
Dupuis, Lima, and Aiken Dupuis,
Toledo. are the principal owners,
and which conducts the Royal thea
ter on the Public square, bought Of
VIII B. Candy the Dreamland the
alter, also on the public square.
1t was announced by the new own
ers that the Drealand will be at
once, improved in minor particulars
and that larger changes may come
later, but that for the time being
the policy in general will remain as
before. g.. d. Dupuis will manage
both houses.
Lands in Easy Street.
The motion picture business may
not now be royal road to fortune,
since the competition has became
keen, but for Candy 1t Was money
maker Of hig order. Most men spend
lifetime in gaining competence:
Candy has in eight years accumu-
lated enough to retire from active
business, to travel and enjoy life on
the sunny side of that happy
thoroughfare called Easy street"
But Candy had some advantage.
He was pioneer in the movie game.
When he open the Dreamland on the
Public square at the same place that
1t now Ia, but in more modest quar-
ters, most people believed that Lima
had been introduced to a novelty
which would soon fade like nearly
every other novelty. Few had the
foreight to see that motion picture
making and exhibiting would be-
come the greatest amusement enter
prise in the world and one Of the
most powerful educational intlu-
ences.
Skins the Cream.
Candy was able to skim the cream.
He started in January of 1907, and
was ahead of the Royal by several
months. He was not only a pioneer
in this city, but in the state for at
the time the Dreamland opened here
there were only two movie houses in
Cincinnati, two in Toledo, one in
Columbus and perhaps few others
scattered over the state.
Candy had a part In the develop
ment Of the business in this part OF
the country. He was treasurer OF the
Ohio Motion Picture Exhibitors Pro-
,tective Association, that later e1-
panded into the national body which
he helped to form. He is now pres
ident Of the Lima branch OF the Mo-
tion Picture Exhibitors league OF
America.
FIowery Florida for Candy.
Candy says he is going about
Christmas time to Florida, where he
is Interested in 5000 acres of land,
and after that he plans to take the
California trip and see the Panama-
Pacific exposition next year. The
movies and the humble nickel have
provided the means. Candy says
that the business, which has been
profitable since the beginning. still
puts money In his pocket, but he
wants a rest. When he came here
from Clarkshurg, w. Va, where he
still holds oil interests, he was a
greenhorn in the game, as, In fact.
were all others at that stage.
Miss lisa Taylor. Gandys cousin.
who has been assistant manager at
the Dreamland almost from the be-
ginning will make a tour Of the
West to visit relatives and then re-
turn to her former home at Graf
ton. w. Va.