| Show NEw THEATRE TO Of BE BUilT Affiliated Vaudeville Interests Have Secured Option and andWil Will Wil Erect Modern Play Playhouse Playhouse Playhouse house to Cost About THE PRESENT ORPHEUM SOON TO BE ABANDONED 1 A Big Combination Is to Bo Bl B Formed Shutting Out Moi Mm I ris us and Opening Greatest War in History of Vaudeville OPTION ALREADY SECURED Following the recent announce announcement announcement announcement ment that the affiliated vaudeville in interests interests interests of America sans Morris were to be combined into a gigantic cir circuit circuit circuit comes the news that will bring delight to Salt Lake vaudeville lovers in the statement last night by C CI J I Howard Garrett Garret of the Orpheum that a new Orpheum theatre will be erected at once in State street to cost An option has been taken on tle t r r my erty ert lying north of or the Studebaker hw hwing ing inK in State street It has a frontage fronta f f I th feet and an immediate a d p pi t of sixty feet back baek of which Is a MM a of IK 15 12 feet ln n length with 1119 feet teet in ii dt i r which will ill h M be used for the theatre pr prop p The front dimensions will be for or the th Jih Ih of the new theatre and for tor a tu building I The news hews of the erection of the ji y v theatre was brought to Salt Lake I J Inight li night by Mr Ir Garrett who met Mii president and Martin Br RII B K h general manager of the Orpheum dr ur drat at Ogden They are on the way wa to N r York Tork where on February 5 the thes w t attend a meeting of all the 1 I vaudeville interests of America iii iS a athe the William Morris Koma houses boulieR At t tins this M JJ Ming ing Irig it is understood that the foil m will form the big bl combination Orpheum circuit Western e tern Managers association Keith A Ie Pru PrOt t Percy G Williams Illiams houses Render i p circuit Kohl Kobl A Ie Castle Poll circuit 8 S livan Considine Shea circuit B Bm houses bouses in Canada The Morris lorri s swill will not be represented In the which further substantiates substantiate aub the re i exclusive story nory in The that the war against t Morris orrIa will ill be bened cO ned ried along aloag upon a more extensive si ta a athan than ever vel In the history of vaudeville To Be Best Theatre The new ne Orpheum in I Salt Sail Lake it t 1 U i without question the heat best theatre in jr 1 Intermountain w west wt It will have hav a E c Eing cing ing capacity capa of 1800 1500 persons and will win modeled along the lines of the fam fain San Francisco house hou e The option on t State street treet property across aero acro from t present Orpheum has been hanging i ifor r 0 for some time owing to the clouded t tto 1 f a ato to 10 the property As soon as sa the s a straightened out the finishing touches a athe athe the deal will wilt be made The new theatre will iII be built b 10 t i 1 a Orpheum circuit or rather by b Me Mye f feld fold and Beck They The will put up one on the best bc fot theatres that architects call an i j ivice vice if and will 11 be bt lavish la h in the exp n d ture tun of money to make it il far more morl i tp Continued on Page Two o r NEW NE THEATRE WILL WILLBE WILLBE BE ERECTED HERE Continued from Page One Onelar Onelar lar Jar than the present playhouse has been which obviously implies a great task upon the part of the builders for In the few years ot of the life of the present Or Orpheum Orpheum Orpheum It has bas become the most popular rendezvous for theatregoers in Salt Lake While the lease on the present Orpheum does not expire for tor seven years the house will be abandoned as a soon as the new now newhouse newhouse house bouse is ready for occupancy The Or 01 Orpheum company in n Salt Lake which is controlled by Mr Garrett and Joseph Nel kel kelson Nelson Nelson son will take a lease on the new Or 01 Orpheum Orpheum for a term of years ears and conduct the house upon the same popular plan planas as thc th present Orpheum has been con conducted conducted conducted ducted Near Old Theatre The new Orpheum th atre will be lo 10 located located in practically the same advantageous position as that now occupied bj by b byte tie tle Orpheum so that patrons of the the theatre atre who have havo been used to the locality will not be given a change in that re respect respect respect The house It is understood will not only have a greater seating capacity but will have conveniences that are pos possessed possessed i by few vaudeville houses of the country It will be the aim of its build builders builders i ers to make it the very apex of the I architects art combining all aU of the at attractive trat live features of other playhouses and adding the new features that have been created by b years year of study of the essen essentials ess n of a most modern modem playhouse I Mr Garrett recently went to San Fran Francisco FranCISCO Francsco cisco where he met Mr and Mr Beck Beek It was then decided to build a big playhouse for the Orpheum In Salt Lake and while the matter was not an announced flounced until last night it was known that plans had bad been ordered and that the work was going oln ahead Yesterday Mr Nr Ir Beck and Mr passed through Ogden and they the were met by b bIr Mr dr Ir Garrett Mr Beck Is quoted at Ogden as saying that fiat the Orpheum circuit is permitting the theother theother theother other interests to arrange the combination combination combination tion at New York Mr will be beback beback back In Salt Lake in about a month when he Ie will have hM the plans for the new theatre and the thi work will be started at once |
