Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-12
SPRINGER PEOPLE
 OFFER TO LEASE
 LOCAL THEATRE Syndicate Submits Proposal to Pay Fair Profit on ESQ.,
 900 Investment.
SHOULD SEAT
 1900 TO 1000 PEOPLE
E. M. Clarke Tells Chamber of Com merce Trustees to Build Ahead of Time, as City Certainly
 Needs Playhouse.

Whether Pine Bluff will have a theatre, showing legitimate produc- tions, now seems to rest entirely With the people of Pine Bluff. For E. M. Clarke, representing the Saenger Amusement company, operating 63 theatres in the South, told the trus- tees of the Chamber of Commerce at the relugar meeting at the Hotel Pines yesterday, that the Saenger syndicate would take 1O-year lease on a theatre should the people of Pine Bluff build one, and that his company would also pay substantial percentage on the investment. The syndicate, he said further, would bring to this city the shows that the people desired, provided it were pos sible to get them.
 1 MT. Clarke arrived here Thursday night from New York, and at Il o'clock yesterday morning had a conference with the theatre committee composed of number of prominent business men. F. G.. Bridges, of that committee, speaking in the ab- sence of A.@W. Mum, chairman, stat ed that the proposition advanced by MT. Clark had been received, and that the committee was investigating details of the proposition.
 Compliments City.
 When speaking to the trustees, Mir Clarke, stated that he had come tc Pine Bluff at the invitation of the secretary of the Chamber of Com. merce after considerable correspond ence had been exchanged between between them. He paved tribute te I Pine Bluff when he said. "When see a city with live Rotary clul and live Chamber of Commerce.
 know it is not necessary to look fur ther to ascertain whether the people of that city are live and progressive. I Members of the board of trustees questioned MT. Clarke about certain phases of the proposition. His an swers indicated that building cost ing minimum of, $8O,OOO should b. built. That it should be larg enough to seat between 1500 and 2, 900 people. The theatre built, h said, should be one ahead of tn present day. so that few years il the future, it would not be necessar. l CO IcdT lC uOWH anu Uullu HUT modern one.
 City Needs Theatre. ' The advantages of a theatre t Pine Bluff were pointed out by MI Clarke:
 "I can hardly conceive" he said "of a town like Pine Bluff bein, without theatre as long as it has It will bring people to the city wh lwould 20 elsewhere for their amuse ment. It is not only source 0 revenue. but it is part of the socia and business life of the city. Shoul we take charge of your theatre, w will put a big broad man in charge who will take an interest in Pin Bluff and it's peoples, and their acti vities. Our company will marc along with you in your progress, an when adversities come. we stan shoulder to shoulder with you"
 He referred the trustees to tn business men and banks of New Or leans as to reliability of the com pany he represents. Mir. Bloom speaking later, said that he had in vestigated the standing of the Saen ger company, and had found it satis factory.
 Mir. Clarke remained in Pine Blui yesterday where he was taken owe the city, and visited several possibl sites