Salt Lake Herald | 1878-11-17 | Page 2 | Local News

Actors and managers have a tradition tra-dition that a church converted into a theatre never succeeds, and they cite many instances lo sustain :t. Id New York, Bjstoo, Philadelphia, Cincinnati Cincin-nati and St. Louis churches have beeo turned ii,to theatres, aud hardly any one of them has flourished. A notable case is that of Dr. Ojgood's Church of the Messiah, New 'York, which, after betug turned into a pljyuouse, was unlucky under the succeii've names of the Lucy Rushtou's thnntre, tbe New York, Ameiican, Mi tro-politan. tro-politan. National, Broadway, People's, Peo-ple's, Manhattan, Varieties, and Uayety. Manager after manager hr.s bankrupted iu trying to mate i: successful, suc-cessful, acd hu'udruU ot luuusinds of dollars have been euuk in efforts to build up a business for it,