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Show 'ORPHEUM CIRCUIT AND JOHN CORT. The lease of the Grand Opera House by the Orpheum circuit, If consummated, con-summated, will bring to this city the best vaudeville artists In the United States. It is said tho Opera House I will bo remodeled at an expense of $15,000 and made a play house Inferior to none in the entire west. When built and opened by Emma Abbott in 1 1S9Q, it was the finest theater west of Denver and today, by the making of a few Improvements, can be restored to its old position of superiority. The leasing of trje Grand to Martin Beck and his people will leave John Coit without a large play house in Ogden. Representatives of Mr. Cort have stated that the theatrical trust will btiiid in this city, in fact negotiations negotia-tions in a preliminary have been on looking to tho securing of a desirable site. With Clio Orpheum remodeling the Grand Opera House and John Cort constructing con-structing a new play house, Ogden will have cause to be interested in things theatrical. |