Show hm3gcr McConrts Ideas Speaking to a HEUALD representative concerning the Salt Lake theatre and the silver circuit Manager McCourt said The local management assure me that they contemplate extensive improvements These will include reseating the house with opera chairs altering the floor line so as to get a octter view of the stage changing the line of the stage moving the stage line I back to give more room in the pariuettc which will allow at least seventylive more 1 seats and some changes on the stage The entire auditorium will be repainted and redecorated re-decorated ifauking the theatre oiie of the W handsomest in the west J Do you look for another theatre to be I built in Salt Lake J I It Is the universal experience of cities j With less than 100000 inhabitants that two theatres do not pay By having but one theatre and one management the cheap shows can be kept out of the city and only the best attractions booked But it has been our boast that Salt Lake had two firstclass theatres That shows up well on paper but tho people who advertise city are the theatrical theatri-cal people If they have a good house they keep talking all over the country what u rood town Salt Lake is and as talking is their principal business they never let up sounding your praises It is better to have one theatre playing firstclass attractions than two houses dickering with second class attractions to fill their time and playing play-ing to a thin business Speaking of the probability of restoring the Grand Mr McCourt said that if it was undertaken it would probably take two years t9 get it ready for occupancy I I No man can afford to build a theatre except I ex-cept in connection with a business block I as it would not pay 1 per cent on the investment in-vestment The building of a theatre in I connection with a business block would take at least two years to complete |