Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-11-12 | Page 11 | Chicago Dedicates New Temple Devotee to Shakespearean Drama

I Chicago Q Dedic Dedicates New Temple J h D Devoted v ted d to ta Shakespearean Drama Dram CHICAGO Nov r i 12 U P V u. u UP Chi U-Chi- today bad ad adt t eJ r long lang te J. J toward I her cr s goal coal ol of or b becoming re is thc the hOme h m of culture futh h r than UI the Bu gunman 1 Jm Just Justy th the corn corner r from the locale JEt of ot 0 10 of or her ber most notorious sang ran V leaders leaders' of t. t arts so 10 and high finance nance last night A d dedicated new temple templo to the anI and works o ot Wit jiam Sh Shakespeare V I Tho Is Js known as the theatre c h t c and l i housed In the Civic Opera company new U OO skyscraper on on the Iho c cast t tb b bank of ot th th Chicago river r. r The auditorium oC of the tho theatre is a a. sm small ll rc replica of or the auditorium el reserved Cor grand opera and ancl receives Its Us patrons pa- pa Irons beneath the same samo blo long block k-Jong k colonnade its Walls are arc panel paneled In iii walnut and gold bold and Iud Its Us seats scats 9 upholstered In salmOn salman pink V V Sponsors o of th the thO project who turned out but for last nl nights night's op openIng openIng open open- nIno n- n Ing Ino with their dressed only slightly l J less ies s resplendently than la the t. t tors of or the opera Include auch uch l cn na names fas as as Val Walter Waller r Dill Sc Scott tt of ot Northwestern terru university Rufus banker brother of or the tho am am- bus ailor orto to Great t Britain the no novelist and Robert Rob Rob- crt ert Maynard rd Hu y CO-y yar old ar-old president of ot the University of oC Chi dago r gel Through h tho tim Civic Ic theatre the Civic Shakespeare society eb hopes to establish in Ul tho States an ana ti hal theatre along the ins linns ot of the famous Comedic Fr Fi n in Paris Ample funds lunds havo 1 to guarantee gu eleven solid weeks of ot every V rY season Director to tD tor general of or the enterprise is Iii Fritz Frit Leiber th the tho famous Shakespearean actor Leiber dedicated the new audi audi- lIst night in th the title title- rote role or of of Hamlet he and his his' brilliantly costumed cast playing out the trag tragedy cd edy against a a. modernistic b background background back back- ck ground of r red black and gold Jold In th their fr hour of ot triumph the sponsors sponsors spon spon- sors were c t further encouraged by the arrival of congratulatory telegrams from rom President t lt Herbert Hoover Will Hays Hay John Goldwyn Adolph z kor and Harry M. M Warner