Entrepreneur and film exhibitor. Built the Los Angeles Theatre in the Broadway Historic Theatre District of Downtown L.A. in 1931 in the early years of the Great Depression at a cost of over $1.5 million and erected in 3 months. Designed by the renowned movie theatre architect S. Charles Lee, the theatre is a very opulent, meticulously constructed and an extravagently elaborate structure, replicating the Palace at Versailles in France. Silent screen comedian Charlie Chaplin assisted in funding for the completion and premiered his "City Lights" motion picture there.
Entrepreneur and film exhibitor. Built the Los Angeles Theatre in the Broadway Historic Theatre District of Downtown L.A. in 1931 in the early years of the Great Depression at a cost of over $1.5 million and erected in 3 months. Designed by the renowned movie theatre architect S. Charles Lee, the theatre is a very opulent, meticulously constructed and an extravagently elaborate structure, replicating the Palace at Versailles in France. Silent screen comedian Charlie Chaplin assisted in funding for the completion and premiered his "City Lights" motion picture there.
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Herman Louis Gumbiner
1920 United States Federal Census
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Herman Louis Gumbiner
1930 United States Federal Census
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Herman Louis Gumbiner
Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922
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Herman Louis Gumbiner
California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997
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Herman Louis Gumbiner
Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Marriages Index, 1871-1920
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