The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-04
CLOSES THE DEAL
FOR NEW THEATRE
One of Finest PlayhOuSeS to
West of Chicago for Salt
Lake City.
BEST STARS WILL PLAY
WILLIAM MORRIS WILL BRING
HARRY LAUDER HERE.

AS forecasted exclusively in The
Herald Republican yesterday mornng,
a deal was cOnsummated last night by
which a new theatre costing d quarter
of a million dollars viii be erected at
the southwest corner Of State street
and Exchange place.
The theatre viii be built for William
Norris and viii become hign class
vaudeville house. In q few days the
American Music Hail company of Utah
will file its articles of corporation and
that company viii control the new
theater.
Samuel Newhouse, with whom the
deal was made owns the ground upon
which the theatre viii be built the
site has a frontage on State street %
ninety-siX feet and on Exchange place
of 1875 feet. bIr NeWhOuSe leases the
site and the new building for twenty
five years to the new company, and
he is interested with William Morris
and others in the project.
Joel Nlbley, a young attorney or SAT-
Lake, has been engaged as attorney FOR
the corporation and will prepare the
papers which viii make the new COM
pany an actual factor IN the tneatricaI
life of salt Lake.
BY the FIRST Of February the plans
for the new theateT will have been de
signed by one OF the best theatrical
architects In the country. Mr.. New
house viii build the finest theatre west
OF Chicago with one OF two notable
on State street as well as on Exchange
place, and along the ground floor on
either side viii be store rooms.
Walter Hon Seely Of San Francisco
wac rose from the rams OF a news
paper writer to the dignity Of a the
atriCal magnate, is the direct represen-
tative Of William Norris, and 1t was
he who closed the deal with Mr. New
house last night. Mr.. Seely received
a message of cOngratulatiOn from Mr.,
Morris The theatrical people are
happy at being connected with Mr.,
Newhouse in the deal
William Norris is at the head Of the
independent vaudeville circuit, and
while his plans contemplate paraueling
the Orpheum circuit throughout the
West, AIr. Seely says that 1t is dis
tinCtly not a campaign against the Or
pheum that is being waged, but Mr.,
Morris believes that there is room for
two high class vaudeville houses.
Operating under that theory, a new
Morris theatre costing $500, 600 is be-
ing erected at San Francisco a theatre
at Kansas City has been taken over
theatres are being built at Omaha and
Denver and in Chicago and cities OF
the East there are sixteen more Nor
ris theatres, while in Europe there are
twenty-One. A new Morris theatre is
also being built at Los Angeles. All
OF which, with the Salt Lake play
house, win make quite chain Of vau-
Mr.. Morris is essentially a feature"
vaudevillian. He believes in having
at least one star upon every bill, and
TO that end has gagged Harry Lauder
at enormous expense. Among the other
stars are Vest Victoria, Cecilia Lotus,
Eva Tanguay, Ida Renee. Arthur
Prince, Julian Eitinge, Grace LaRue,
Amelia Bingham, James X. Hackett,
+. n. Holland and others Of slightly
less distinction.
Hairy lauder will come to Salt Lake
for a matinee ana night next January.
In order to insure this stars Western
tour Mr.. MOrriss paid $4,000 to a Lon
don house TO secure his release from a
Christmas engagement. Mr., Lauder
viii appear at the Tabernacle in a
Scottish concert and Mr.. Morris is per-
sOnally directing the tour.