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Show CHANGE AT THE; GRIND Denver Theater Company j Secures Control of Jhc f Popular Playhouse; v . ":. . : r The Denver Theater company, of which A. R.Pelton is president and r. C Smutser is secretary and treasurer, has leased the Grand theater in this city from Jones A Hammer for a period of nine years. The consideration Is fSX.600. The new owners are now In charge and have been since May . T- ' " : Thoral L. Hammer win be ths local manager of the house," but Mr. Pelton will spend a portion of his time here.' The new owners control, the Curtis theater In Denver and the two houses - will be run in conjunction. ' - v :v"- The Grand will continue to be a Stair & Havlrn house, giving popular plays at popular i prices fifteen cents" to fifty cenu.- Beginning June 1 a season of summer stock will be. inaugurated .to run eight weeks at ten, twenty and thirty cents, with two bills a week. At the close of the season the house will undergo a thorough renovation and many improvements improve-ments are to be made. Mr. Pelton is a former well-known Colorado Col-orado newspaper man. -- |