Word: loubat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plush Hopes. The possibility of rebuilding the opera has long obsessed a New Orleans businessman named Walter L. Loubat. In his childhood he sold peanuts and was an usher in the old building. Last winter Loubat formed the New Orleans Opera House Association, gathered $7,200 in subscriptions, planned to raise more with popular-priced opera...
Last week Loubat had a summer season of opera going full blast in the City Park stadium, was drawing an audience of 4,000 a night. If the box office held good, Loubat hoped to net $25,000, sufficient for a down payment on the old opera-house plot. Loubat also hoped to follow his outdoor opera with a winter season in New Orleans' Municipal Auditorium. Rock-bottom estimates on his rebuilding plan run to about $285,000. He thought he might be able to rebuild...