Show TENT THEATRE j STill ON GRANT CRANT Agee Says License Is Void Manager States I IOSI P Position t IOn I Mayor George E B Browning Drowning and City Attorney A W Agee today declared that U at Ogden city will re- re reQuire re- re re require quire quiro the Taylor rs Brothe-rs Amuse Amuse- Amusement ment mont company a n tent theatre on Grant avenue to live up to the tM city ordinance Chief of Police Jonathan Jones said that he personally notified the management of ot the tent thea thea- theatre theatre tre to move moe their show as in- in instructed In Instructed by the city commission on the grounds that It Is situated within the tho lIre firo limits of ot the city Attorney Agee said that the city will prosecute prose tho the amusement It If It tails falls to comply with the demands of ot the city adding that he understands that the the com corn company pan pany Invites arrest and prosecution prosecution tion I have Instructed the assistant city attorney Attorney Agee saId to accept the Invitation as we propose to enforce the ordinance nance LICENSE INVALID Commenting on the issuance of oC othe the license to the company by the city recorder Mr Ageo Agee said that the license was issued and signed by the city recorder and then signed by Mayor Browning Drowning along with a number of oC o other licenses After After a It careful examination he be continued I 1 have bave reached the conclusion that all aU applications for license must be te passed upon by the board of at o city commission commission- The board of ot commissioners has been specially vested with the power to grant licenses by the state legislature ture I 1 am of o the opinion opinion ion that It cannot delegate this power to anyone else Therefore the license Issued to the theatre company for operation Is null and void and no further action need be taken by the board ott on the petition of o Ogden theatre owners that the license be re- re revoked re- re re revoked yoked It is already void and therefore need not be revoked MANAGERS MANAGER'S F M Crabill manager of the theatre y compa-y today said he did not wish the city officials to assume tha that his company Is tak tak- takIng tak- tak taking taking ing an arbitrary stand nor makIng a 3 challenge for the city to make an arrest Our position Is this Mr Crabill said I came from tram Boise Daise and asked for tor a license to give performances In a 3 tent at the site we now occupy on Grant avenue The city granted us u a license to conduct our GUr show at that specific location and the II specifics lv Iy states that we e have met all re- re I After getting the license we moved our shot thov to Ogden and wont went to considerable expense In not preparing the lot not to mention the expense of o coming to Ogden advertising etc Now we are served with blunt notice that we must move on the grounds we aro In the fire limits It we are In the fire limits now we were the In fire tIre limits when the city Issued us the license Somebody should ha have hae e known about the fire limits before we were granted the license and went to great expense As It stands now we have a city licence to operate on our present site and the license says we have met all requirements n |