Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-12-10 | Page 6 | Great Palace for Moving Pictures is Planned Here

CREAT GREAT PALACE fOR FOB MOVING PICTURES IS PLANNED HERE ERE WorK Is Begun on M Main in Street Sit for Largest House of Its Kind This ell city will have th the largest la l moving mo picture the theatre tre in the world and it 11 will be located at 41 South Main str street el H It i will HI cost in the neighborhood of 01 t will tU U have havo a sea seating ln capacity capacity- of or and and Is to be completed b by Ma May 1 I 1913 The enterprise Is b th the the- result of ot a a. deal jUt just closed b by the Utah Savings s and Trust company compan According to the thc terms of ot the deal the Liberty Theatre company compan takes a lon Ion long lease Jentle on tin the Main street properly property The property Includes a strip with v a n fooL 6 foot frontage e on Main street south bOUth of or the Utah Savings a and Trust Truit company building which run runs back pad- pad to ta t the tho b bank for fOl 16 feet at which 1 point it widens In into to a rectangular tract tact feet teet The property south of the b bank is it now now now- occupied by n a small theatre which will win be torn out to form olm the lobby for tor the new view house The distance from the Maui Main street tred entrance to the tear lear wall of or the thea theatre will be feet fecU The deal was 88 clos closed d last Jut week but was not announced until yesterday The build lug ing contract has bf been n 11 JL and excavation work was 36 started yesterday While the design of the theatre will he be one ono of the most elaborate In tho the world orld bv by rapid work It Ills l is expected that the theatre theatre the the- atre will be opened on or before May 1 1 1913 The ne neth th tr will 11 seat seal more moreMan Man hta an any other lo local ul building excluding the tah tabernacle Tho The largest picture house at tho the present time Is 18 in Australia and has hafl 9 a seating capacity of or 2 2500 00 The Winter Winter Winter Win Win- ter garden Gaidon Ga en In Now New e York s seats at The Liberty Libert Theatre company's plans call for tor an auditorium feet There wilt will also be a balcony and many man boxes boxell and loges The Interior finishing will beIn bo be boIn boIn In Corinthian Corinthian design and the architect Frank W. W Moore promises one of or the most elegant a auditoriums lm In the west In 3 addition dl Uon to the latest Innovations innovation In Inthe tho the way BY of every conc conceivable convenience to patrons and In ventilation and lighting an t organ will vIII be installed second only In proportion ane and grandeur to th the one in the tabernacle Tho The new theatre which has not ye yet eL been named will be opened In conjunction tion with tho the Liberty theatre on State street It will have hwa an orchestra of from eighteen en to to twenty pieces as the or or- or music Is to be a feature of ot the new house The Liberty tJ th theatre company Is lo com corn posed 1 principally of Ogden capitalists st Al Albert Albert Al- Al bert b being ln president Charles Zelmer C. C W W. W MIdgley and II I. A A. A Sims Sima are directors C C. W. W ant and anil Rex flex Midgley arc are the local managers gels