Show GRAND SOLD AGAIN I i Hammer and Jones Securer Secure-r Control of the Theater I TO BE TRANSFERRED SOON I M E Blulvey Retires From the Management Man-agement of tlo House Which Will Pass Into the Hands oC the New Management Within a e Days Mr Hammer I a WellKnown WelXnow Theatrical Man and Has Had Much Experience Bookings of the Old Management Will Bo Filled The whirligig of Salt Lake theatricals theatri-cals the Grand theater which In Us time has furnished a most Interesting pyrotechnical exhibition Is about tom to-m ke another revolution Manager M E Mulvey steps outMessrs Hammer Ham-mer and Jones step In The negotiations negotia-tions which have led to this result were concluded yesterday when Lindsay Lind-say Rogers who ha held a majprity of the stock of the house In trust bargained bar-gained It to YS Jones and Paul Hammer Jr Within a few days the transfer of the place with Its properties prop-erties Will take place probably before be-fore Santa Claus gets around to Salt Lake The present year ushered In one change In the Grand and departs leaving another between the two thqre was a hiatus commonly known as the Kallman regime Manager Martin Kallman had n meteoric season sea-son of stock performances with the Ralph Cummings Stock company In which bills ran up faster than receipts re-ceipts Then the owners of the house induced Manager Mulvey to reassume the management and the theatrical year was eked out with such pickup attractions as could be found The new year opening September found the wheels running smoothly again and the lubricating fluid has held out to good advantage Then W S Jones and Paul Hammer Jr who have established es-tablished wide prestige concluded the time was ripe for a bigger venture They commenced negotiations for the Grand and found the Salt Lake Amusement association owners of the Institution ready to tell to some one with the means and experience to make theatricals hero a success The deal was concluded yesterday and notice no-tice given Mr Mulvey that the new engineer and fireman would be ready to step Into the theatrical cab on the next trip out Paul Hammer Jr Is known to about every man woman and child who ever I bought a ticket to n theatrical performance per-formance In Salt Luke as well as to several of those who are accustomed to travel on passes He started as a stage boy at the Salt Lake Theater some eighteen years ago ahd climbed from that to treasurer receiving his training under the ablest theatrical manager the State ever had Charles S Burton There Is no part of the theater that he doesnt know forward and backward and when It comes to making money pay for itself he takes the front row of seats Mr Hammer would had Oscar Eliason not been so untlnfcly taken away have been director di-rector of one of the most paying institutions In-stitutions of the country for tho time wag ripe for this necromancers return to this country and Ellason V was far ahead of either Herrmann or Kellar This year found Hammer back in the amusement sphere as publisher oCa programme which has grown to be the largest publication of Its sort in America Amer-ica Now with his partner W S Jones he steps Into n theater as hjs own manager V Unquestionably there Is a place here for popularprice theatricals the-atricals Tho numerous upheavals In the Grand have very sadly wrecked the business but a permanent management man-agement wjll restore confidence TalkIng Talk-Ing of the change Inst night Mr Mul vey who goes out In the friendliest rrlendle3t frame of mind said that he would not go through the experience of untangling o gling knots which the frequent cbapges had caused for any amount of money This will finish Mr Mulveys career asa as-a purveyor of amusements n field In which he has achieved splendid success suc-cess and from which he retires with clean hands and 1 reputation for keeping his agreements to the letter The directors of the Lalt Lake Amusement Amuse-ment association have been Messrs Mulvey Lindsay Rogers Ed Car ruthcrs Frank HIgginbotham Jay Rogers The new managers who have acquired a control of the 2500 shares of stock will this week be Installed l by the board of managersat a special meeting Mr Hammer stated last l night that all the seasons bookings which had been made In the name of the company or association would he filled Aa to thc staff of employees that is to be determined later T II Hammer who has been assistant treasurer of the Salt Lake Theater up to the present time will be treasurer of the new house |