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CLARENCE G. DROWN
DROWN, CLARENCE G., Theatrical Manager, Los Angeles, California, was born at Chicago, Illinois, August 11, 1870, the son of Oscar A. Drown and Matilda (Gogan) Drown. August 3, 1895, he married Grace Groth, at Wanatah, Indiana, and to them was born one daughter, Grace Hope Drown.
Mr. Drown was educated in the public schools of Chicago, Illinois and Valparaiso, Indiana. After finishing his preliminary education, he entered Notre Dame University, the famous Indiana educational institution. In 1893, he went on the stage and for one year was an actor, associated with the Abbey-Schoeffield-Grau Companies.
From 1894 to 1898, he was with the H. B. Thearle Amusement Company and Pain Fireworks Company in the capacities of stage director and business manager. In 1898 he resigned these positions to go with Stair and Havlin, and was a company manager for that syndicate until the latter part of 1899, when he left it to join the Orpheum forces at Chicago. For three years he was manager of the Orpheum Road Show, the largest vaudeville attraction put out by the company, and in 1903 he was appointed manager of the Orpheum Theater at Los Angeles. He has continued in that capacity down to date.
Since locating in Los Angeles, Mr. Drown has become one of the most conspicuous men in the theatrical profession there. In addition to the Orpheum he has had the management of the Grand Opera House, Los Angeles, since 1906, and in the summer of 1911, when the Lyceum Theater of Los Angeles, was built, took the management of that.
Mr. Drown is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association and Municipal League of that city, and of the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
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Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 473, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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