Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-03
Newhouse and William Morris's
Representative Closing
Deal This Afternoon.
FLOR LOWER STATE STREET
! Lease Signed Today and Further Nc
gotiatIons Arc Being Brought
To Completion Today.

In all probability before thls eve
ning's News reaches it's city readers, ;
deal will have been consummated her'
that Will result in the carly construc'
tion of one of the finest and mos
modern theaters in the west 1t vii
be built on a lot 96x165 feet on Ex-
change Place and State street Samue
Newhouse Will be the builder. and the
building will cost over 100000. Henry
Ives Cobb, architect for Mr. Newhouse,
will be instructed as soon as the de-
tails are settled. to proceed with the
plans and the work of construction
Will begin by Jan. 10. The Tuttle Bros.
company closed today the long lease of
the south corner of Exchange Place
and State street to the Independent or
Morris company of New York for the
building.
The big deal is between Samuel New
house and the William Morris company,
and while there are still some matters
to be decided upon, it is quite certain
the deal will be closed shortly after
O'Clock this afternoon, and soon after
a definite agreement is reached. MT.
Newhousc will go cast to perfect ar
rangements for construction.
The Morris company is represented
by Walter Hoff Seely, vice president
and general manager. with headquar-
ters at San Francisco. Mr. Scely was
in conference with Mr.. Newhouse prac-
ticaIly all day and practically all the
main features of the transaction nave
been agreed upon.
SEELY'S STATEMENT.
Mr.. Seejy was seen at the Knutsford
This afternoon and gave to The News
this statement:
II cannot say definitely that the deal
is closed. as there are certain detalls
TO be agreed upon, but have no DOUBT
that matters will be adjusted TINS after
noon We are entering the western ter
rjtory and are working parallel TO the
Orpheum circuit. We have buildings
i'm Omaha, Denver, and in two weeks
will complete a theater in kansas CITY.
Then we have the Coliseum IN st.
Louis, we have one in Los Angeles and
q $500 900 theater in San francisco. AZ
the latter place there is put oo-lnc.,
concrete wall between our stage and |
that of the Orpheum. Then we nave |
Oakland. Portland, Seattle. Tacoma, |
Spokane and may have Vancouver and
we will have q theater here and 1t will |
be one of the finest in the west
Our policy has been and VIII De TO ,
nut on the circuit only the very highest |
headlincrs is Harry Lauder. the highest
priced star in vaudeville, receiving a /
salary of $1,000 per week. We had to
paw the Empire theater of London Slo,-
600 to secure the release OF Lauder SO
we could star him over the western
circuit. He will be here in January,
and | am making arrangements now
for his appearance In. this city
SOME OTHER SATELLITES.
rAmong the other headliners we will
feature such stars as Cecilia Lotus,
Victoria, Eva Tanguay, Ida Renee,
Arthur Prince, Julian Eltinge, Grace
La Rue. Amelia Bingham, James h !
Hackett, T. NJ Holland and others, and
of less than 81 900 per week. so you see
we will give Salt Lake high class
attractions" "A
would you care to say anything
about the price involved In the event
that Mr.. Newhousc builds the thea
ter?" he was asked
~ cannot say at present. said Mr..
Seely. las that Is one matter that has
not been decided upon definitely. You
see. we sometimes furnish the money
to build the houses and sometimes get
some one to build them on percentage
basis or we may have local corpor-
alton. We may form a corporation
here but. as I said before that is a
matter that has not been decided
upon"
When the Morris company determin-
ed TO erect theater in Salt Lake City,
several sites were looked over and dis
cussed but none of them were quite
satisfactory TO the representatives of
the company until the property men
toned above was suggested. Mr.. New
house and Mr.. Seely looked over the
site thoroughly and the latter was de-
lighted with the prospects, Prelimin-
ary arrangements were soon made and
there now seems nothing in the way to
prevent a consummation of the deal
and the erection of the new playhouse.
Mr.. Seely says he is sure there is
plenty of room for another theater here
and that the Morris house would be
q big success