The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-25
new THEATER
OPENS DEC. |
PEOPLES MOVING PICTURE
HOUSE WILL BE AN UP-To-
DATE, ATTRACTIVE
PLACE.

Lauriiim Is TO have a new moving
picture house. 1t will be known as the
Peoples theater. and will be opened
ON Dec. /, in new building, erected
expressly for the purpose on the site
of the old Baptist church property
on Hecla street. The old structure
was torn down and the theater is
now fast nearing completion. IL will
be one of the most up-to- date and
attractive, as well as one OF the larg-
est moving picture houses i'm the up
per peninsula, and will show Asso-
citation pictures. The latest ilustrat-
ed songs also will be rendered, cap
able entertainers having been engage
ed.
The proprietor of the theater will
he Adrian l.. Cooley, an experienced
man in the business, who. dur
ing mis- residence in Calumet, has
made many friends. Mr.. Cooley will
introduce a number OF innovations
which he believes will prove popular,
and he is confident of the entire sue
cess of his enterprise. He will be
ably assisted 10y the following
staff: II. j. Coleman, electri-
clan; Miss Marie Allen, enter
Tobinsky, floor manager. In addition
to these another entertainer is to be
employed There also will he a four
piece orchestra, consisting of piano.
drummer, clarinet and violin.
The new theater is seventy-one feet
in length. thirty flour i'm width and
eighteen feet high. II has sloping
hoor and will seat $50 persons. A
stage extends across the rear, and a
modern theater front has been in
stalled. The color scheme will be
green, white and gold, and the decora-
lions especially fine. Two moving
picture machines, the photograph and
Kinedrome, and new dissolving ma
chine for the illustrated song pictures
will be installed, the machines to be
absolutely fre-proof
At each performance three reels, or
5000 feet of film. will he shown, and
two illustrated songs rendered.
The songs will be the very
latest, a special arrangement having
beer made with a Chicago music pub
fishing house for the most recent pro-
auctions in this line.
A huge electric sign, fourteen feet
long and six feet high, will grace the
entrance of the theater. In the CEN
ter will be the one word, Peoples"
in electric lights, and on top will be a
large golden star of different colored
lights which viii continually twinkle
Around the sign will be a scroll of diff
ferent colored lights which will chase
each other in a merry race. 1t will
DE one of the most unique and attrac
i've signs In the copper country.
Two days i'm every month will be
set apart by Mr.. Cooley for the school
on which days the pupils OF
the public and parochial schools viii
be be admitted free of charge. Spe-
cial tickets will be issued for them.
On those days NM. c. ooley plans to
have pictures of an educational nat
ure. which will prove both interesting
and instructive. Monthly admission
books will be sold to patrons of the
theater who desire them. tickets to
the amount of $3.50 selling for $1..5. |
The coupons will DE good at any time.
In the spring, MIR. Cooley intends to {
vaudeville i'm addition to the |
pictures and songs, and the best acts
will be brought here.
To keep the air i'm the theater pure |
~ all times six "OZonators' will be |
Installed. They are electric arrange |
uents which consume the foul air. |
During the summer months q cooling
will be in service, con-
sisting Of ventilators worked by means
Of fans. and cooling draug'hts.