Show SCORES OF Q MEN ARE R RUSHING WORK ON COLONIAL TREAT THEA IRE RE Playhouse Pl to Be Opened Nov 18 1 8 With Nordica Concert Conce Con e tJ t Is Most Attractive in the intermountain i Region With men working on double shifts day du and night and the work pushed ahead with all ll possible rapidity lt the Co Ce Colonial Colonial lonial theatre the new and beautiful play house now going up on Third South street will be entirely completed and its doors thrown open to the public on Nov 18 IS It will be by far the most elaborate and pretentious structure of or Its kind in the region It is now a veritable activity with workmen swarming all over Jt it ami an under positive orders to rush everything e ahead The interior of the playhouse has haq assumed definite shape and its artistic lines and decorations foretell Its beauty It will represent an investment when com corn completed completed of or 1000 and is owned by b Mrs Eveline A Auerbach Corps of Contractors The theatre building Is being oln put up bv by b the following concerns J H Brittain Salt Lake general Jeneral con contractor con contractor contractor tractor all brick stone concrete steer steel and carpenter work August Rudine Salt Lake principal sub subcontractor subcontractor contractor all mason work ork The Tho Campnell Building company compan Salt Lake City excavation part of or foundation walls Architectural Decorating company com pan Se Seattle Seattle attle attic plain and ornamental plastering The Mitchell Halbach company Chi Chicago Chicago cago decorating painting and brass rail rall railing rallIn railing ing In The Furniture company compan Salt Lake City draperies and carpets and chairs for boxes The T G Allen Electrical company compan Salt Lake City electric wiring I The Will Ill Bees Rees Plumbing company Salt Lake City steam heating ventilation and plumbing The A H Andrews ws company Chicago I opera chairs chair Twin City Scenic company compan Minneapolis curtains and amI scenery Salt Lakes amusement am lovers will see seethe seethe seethe the Colonial theatre opened In grand style for the Nordica and her concert company will be the first attraction attraction attraction tion there The sale of or seats for tor the first night will open on Nov 12 I 2 and prices will range ringe rAnge from 1 to 5 with no auction sale Balcony Floor Promenade Entrance to the theatre will be through 1 an attractive lobby feet reet i deep and 20 feet wide way down the lobby from the street will be the I managers office and ticket office on the right hand side going in The lobby lobb will lead into a foyer feet In dimen dimensions dimensions I One of or the features S of the Ule foyer one I that Is unique and very recent in theatre building will be the balcony floor prom promenade promenade I I enade 10 feet wide which will run around the foyer foer It will be enclosed by a balus balustrade balustrade trade and will be an attractive place to stroll between acts or to view people le surg surging surging I ing Into the playhouse I Leading from Crom the foyer fo er will be a amok smoking I ing room on the right ri ht hand side and a la In ladles 11 Indies dies retiring room on the left side The I ticket office for or the gallery will lead from the east ea t side of or the foyer forer Entrance to the gallery galle seats seat will W b from the side door of the theatre The auditorium will be amply amp supplied with exits in case of or fire lire or other dan danger danter danger ger ter Six exits will lead from the main floor four from the balcony and two from the gallery They The will all till lead to fire i e escapes In fact the apparatus for tor ex extinguishing extinguishing fires will be as 11 perfect as can cnn be secured theatre will be finished in an Ivory Io and anti gold Id effect The side walls will be begreen green reen with draperies to match The cell ceil ceiling cellIni ing In Ini will sill in resemble the sky effect from which will twinkle myriads of electric lights Comfortable Dressing Rooms The stage will be unusually unusual large tn the opening being 35 feet It will be 30 feet high nigh and 35 i feet deep Nine ilc dressing rooms two star rooms room and seven for Cor Corother other members of companies will be pro provided provided provided vided They The will be large provided with ilot not and cold water carpeted and have I many other conveniences which are usua usual usually ly missing In stage dressing rooms The lighting effect of the playhouse will willbe willbe be by b means of lights lIht behind ground glass Not ot one light ht will be exposed The boxes twelve in number will be ranged on both ldes of or the stage tae Today Toda the workmen will start laying the sidewalk in front of or the theatre building and the tile floor loor of the lobby lobb and put putting putting putting ting up the scenery The stage floor is ll practically all down and the scenery and theatre seats are aie here and nd ready to t be beThe installed The box arrangement arran ement of or the theatre is of the very latest style Six boxes will be beon beon beon on the level of or the main floor noor and six even een with the balcony balcon They will be at ar arranged ranged so that the three boxes on side can be thrown open and converted into one big box io to that a it big bis theatre par party part party ty t can an be accommodated Seating Capacity The seating capacity of the house will willbe willbe willbe be 1750 1756 l as follows Lower floor s 41 Twelve boxes box s six seats each 7 Balcony i 1 his Gallery Galler A A Grant will ill manage mannge the Colonial theatre and also the Lyceum theatre now going goinA up on State street Just above aboe the th Hotel He will wili make his fu future future future ture headquarters here Instead of at Og Ogden Ogden Ogden den where he has haI been In the past The two Salt Lake theatres and the Grand theatre In Ogden all of which have been be n leased by b John Cort and will run plays from his booking will be managed by Mr Ir Grant The Lyceum It t is expected will be opened on Nov No 28 and anI will represent an Investment of nearly neul It has been planned to have special excursions from front Logan and Intermediate points point on the O 0 OS OS S L from Ogden on the Bamberger road ro d dand and from Payson and other points on the Denver Rio Grande to Salt Lake for forthe forthe the occasion of or the opening of or the Colo Cob nial |