Eugene Vincent Tracy grew up in Denver, Colorado, the son of a railroad tinner. By the age of 17 he was working as a railroad call boy in the small western town of Helper, Carbon County, Utah. Eugene known by his family and friends as Gene, developed a keen interest in movie theaters and by 1914-15 found work as a theater manager for the Lowell Airdome Theater in Lowell, Conchise County, Arizona later purchasing the theater itself and a year later...