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Show STOCK THEATER TRUST 18 1ST FORMED Salt Lake Is to Be Taken Into Combine Organized in San Francisco. Special to '-Tho Tribune. SA2s P1UNCLSCO, Jan. 20. A now theater trust, in which all the stock theaters the-aters in the west aro. io bo included, is flio latest deal in tho amusement world. The initial steps were taken hero today, to-day, after a conference which was a prolonged one. Managers who were hero today and who effected a combine were representatives of tho Belasco theater in San Francisco, Oliver Morosco of the Burbank theater, Los Angeles, and George Baker of tho Baker theater in Portland. ' .Control the Best Plays. These three theatrical managers havo contracts controlling the great majority of the best plays that are procurable for stock purposes. Stock theaters in Sonttlo and Spokane havo already signified sig-nified a williugness to go into tho combine com-bine in fact havo so decided, and the I trust, desiros to extend its field to Helena, Salt Lako aud Denver, and thus form a circuit where tho "lays may .be put on for n week's run. t As'to Salt Lake House. As to the theater in Salt Lake which is to bo taken in, no conclusion has been reached. Overtures have been made, bur nothing has been accomplished. accom-plished. It is understood that-tho Bungalow Bun-galow theater in Salt Lake refuses to enter the combine, for tho reason that. Mr. Mack believes it cau do bettor out of the combine. The recent cliaugc in the control of " the Grand would also bar that plavhouse from tho combine, as "Uue.lo Dick" Sutton believes in playing it alone. It mav be, that tho now combine will gpt tlie Shubert in Sa It Lako. in fact, if it gets a theater iu Salt Lake, it will necessarily have to bo this theater. Another week will givo opportunity for cinching up some and giving it a lead pipe cinch on lho several cities in tho proposed stock circuit. v |