242:, John Herbert Mack and Rudolph K. Hynicka. They planned to acquire forty theaters in cities around the United States and Canada, and to supply them with forty theater companies playing in rotation. They would put on equal numbers of melodramas, society plays, comedy dramas, farce comedies and musical comedies, charging popular prices. The partners were all associated with the "Eastern Wheel" of burlesque theaters, which had a similar business model. By 1914 Hynicka had acquired a large stake in Cox's interests in theaters in New York, and was spending growing amount of time in that city. Hynicka invested in the
167:, and took responsibility for maintaining Cox's voter card file. This contained records on every voter in Cincinnati, including where they worked, which church they belonged to and any scandals in which they had been involved. Hynicka became the most powerful of Cox's supporters. He headed Cincinnati's influential Republican Central Committee of ward and township captains and managed allocation of the 2,000 political patronage jobs in the city. By the start of the 1890s Hynicka, Cox and
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190:'s drive to eliminate corruption in business and politics. In 1911 Cox announced "I am retiring. I hope my enemies will find other targets". When Cox retired Hynicka became leader of the Republican party in Hamilton county. Hynicka and Herrmann agreed to reorganize the Republican Advisory Committee without Cox at the request of
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of 4 October 1921 said "... I should not grieve if
Hynicka should be overturned in Hamilton County, but I do not subscribe to the theory that the way to overturning is to put the Republican party out of power in the municipality of Cincinnati." In 1926 Hynicka retired from his position as chairman of
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noted that a corporation controlled by John J. Ryan and
Rudolph K. Hynicka, of Cincinnati, was operating a theater in St. Louis. Rudolph K. Hynicka came to own a chain of burlesque houses. In 1910 Hynicka became involved in the
125:, Ohio, for many years during a period when politics in Cincinnati was scandal-ridden. Hynicka was also involved in operating a chain of burlesque houses, and was a partner in an attempt to form a theatrical "wheel" in 1910.
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On 2 April 1912 Hynicka announced that he had withdrawn from politics to devote himself to his business interests. Cox and
Herrmann had already made similar announcements. Later Hynicka was chosen to represent Ohio in the
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Cincinnati was renovated and reopened as the Standard Theater. It was managed as a burlesque house by Hynicka and Charles B. Arnold until 1915. In November 1906
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promised to clean up the city. Various scandals emerged after the
Democrats took office. One involved Hynicka using his office as clerk of the police court to earn bribes of $ 150–$ 200 a week.
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announced a plan to form a circuit of popular theaters, the
Lawrence Weber Co-operative Booking Circuit. The investors were Weber,
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184:William Howard Taft
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