Show LECTURE HALL WANTED e One of the needs of Salt Lake is a hall in which to deliver lectures give concerts and other entertainments entertain-ments that are usually not attended by large audiences The Theatre and OperaHouse are both too large and too expensive for any except the bestdrawing lectures Beecher on account of his unsavory reputation reputa-tion and the morbid curiosity of even a Utah community can get a fairsized and paying audience Into the Theatre and Talmage the acrobat acro-bat of the pulpit is able to attract enough of those interested In witnessing wit-nessing the antics of a ministerial gymnast to pay the cost of either of 1 the playhouses But there are many quite popular lecturers whose drawing qualities are so limited that in either of the houses they would be under the necessity of paying expenses from other sources than the sale of tickets tick-ets and yet these lecturers are really good and at popular prices would attract paying audiences in cheap halls Only now and then can a concert be given in the Theatre Thea-tre or Opera House In order to meet the cost the price of tickets has to be placed so high that only a few people will buy The result is that unless a concert company has reputation repu-tation it performs in Salt Lake at the risk of losing money There are practically no halls in the city suitable for lectures concerts con-certs and entertainments that are not first clas in the matter of popularity pop-ularity Churches and schoolhouses are sometimes utilized always at an inconvenience to everybody interested In-terested Besides the social class feeling runs so high and t8 such extremes ex-tremes that one set will not go to the schoolhouse or church of the other set denying themselves a pleasure rather than do violence vio-lence to their sentiment that it is wrong to patronize another class A hall is needed that will be neutral ground just as the two playhouses are neutral and one the opening expenses for which will not exceed 25 or 30 j a hall furnished with a stage and made comfortable and attractive in which people of all social classes of re = specability and good repute may meet and be entertained without feeling that they are intruders and without feeling they are conducing to the support of the enemy It seems to us that such a hall can be provided and the money required in its erection be profitably Invested It is at least worth the while of our rich and progressive eitlaana to think the matter over |