04/05/2022
here's some new information from the Cinema Treasures site:
Joe Vogel on April 4, 2022 at 7:54 pm
The Earl most likely opened in 1942, when the April 10 issue of Film Daily reported it as being among theaters that had recently bought Super Simplex projectors and Crestwood carpeting from the National Theater Supply Company in Chicago. The Earl was probably built by Earle J. Williams, who had operated the Tivoli Theatre in Knoxville at least as early as 1924. Williams was still in the theater business at least as late as 1951, when he was mentioned in the June 9 issue of Boxoffice as the co-owner of the Macomb Drive-In at Carthage, Illinois along with a Mr. Allen.
