The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-04
NEW THEATER
FOR SALT LAKE
Sullivan & Considine TO Build
Vaudeville House on
Upper Main.
DEAL CLOSED EXCEPT
SIGNING OF PAPERS
Handsome New Amusement
House to Represent Invest
ment of 100000.

The signing of the papers Is practl-
cally all that remains to make COM
plete a deal between Sullivan G. Con-
sidinc, the theatrical promoters, and
+. H.. Sheets of Salt Lake City for
the purchase of the site where the
Hooper Eldrcdge building is located on
upper Main street, between South
Temple and First South streets. for tho
election Of ono Of the most unique and
beautiful playhouses in the country.
Fred Lincoln general manager Of tho
Sullivan e. Considine interests Is ex-
pectcd to arrive in this city almost
any day when final details toward con-
summatiDg the deal will be gone into.
An investment of at least 5000 900
will be made by the show magnates in
Salt Lako City The site for the pro-
posed new vaudeville house has Main
street frontage of more than eighty
feet with depth of eighty-hve feet
and au additional several hundred feet
used to advantage. With this liberal
amount Of ground the thcatcr will be
so constructed that all the dressing
rooms will be on the ground floor max
in" a convenient feature for the show
folks as well as for the employees of
tho house,
To Be Known as Empress.
The new vaudeville house will he
known as The Empress the same name
that is being given To all the Sullivan
& Considlnc vaudeville theaters- 1t IS
planned to make this the finest theater
in this part of the country. II will
will be large Sullivan 6 Considine s
own architect the same man that drew
the plans for the Colonial theater in
this city is working on plans and speci-
iications for the new building. Work
on the new structure, il is said, viii be
started in the near future and will he
rushed to completion with all possible
speed.
A most modern feature of the EN-
one installed in the now Kansas City
thcater, recently constructed by the
Sullivan & Censidinc syndicate, by
means Of which the tbeatcr may be
cooled by several degrees when the
weather on the outside is of the sweat
producing variety, In the past sum-
mer, on the hottest days, the tempera-
ture in the Kansas City house was low
cred 20 degrees from the outside tenn
perature by the operation of the up-to,
date cooling plant,
l1dlluSOu0 uIn1SnluBS.
According to present plans the upper
Main street show house will be erected
about fifteen feet to the rear CT the
done to afford light well. The en-.
trance will be about eighty-fve feet
in length and will open, not into the
theater proper, but into a unique oval
lobby, forty by twenty feet in size,
whcro light will be radiated from a
loaded glass dome and where marble
architecture, rugs, green's and comforta'
BILE settees Will make the spot attract.
i've. The new theater, it is planned,
will be seated with the finest opera
chairs to be obtained,
Sullivan & Considlne, it is said, for
a long time have entertained the idea
of erecting n splendid vaudeville the
ater here, but when ii WAS fully de-
cided to make the move the question
of whether IT was better to build on
upper or lower Main street arose and
was food for much pondering, it is
said. To decide in a way as to the
most favorable location on the principal
business street of the citv for the new
thcater a rather original plan was
adopted by those who were sent here
to look INTO the situation TO determine
chow the crowds travel ~
Men were stationed at various points
on Main street on different days of the
week and a count was made Of the
number of persons that passed each
given point. An average on week day
afternoon was reported as follows:
Number OF persons passing the Utah
Security & Trust building, between See
oud and Third South, between 2:45 and
3:45 o'clock. 1900; Vienna cafe, be-
tween First and Second South streets,
between 1:45 and 2:i5 clock, 2200;
Utah Gas company. just south of where
| erection of new theater is proposed,
between 1;45 and 2.45 O'Clock, 100;
Utah National bank, First South and
Main streets, between 2:30 and $50
o clock, 2SS2; southeast corner First
South and Main streets, between 2:5J
and 1855 o'clock, 2062.
Ideal Matinee Location.
With brilliantly illuminated front
made attractive by electric signs of
new and original design the Empress
night crowds. and for matinee perform.
ances they are Of the opinion that they
have the ideal location in. the city, q
site that they have wanted for months
The Sullivan & Coisidiue syndicate
owns and leases thirty-four theaters in
| the best cities of the United States.
Recently the syndicate purchased the
! Garrick in San Diego and the new Grou-
man in San Francisco, besides erecting
n theater costing a quarter of a million
dollars In Cincinnati. The rs, and CO
interests have an elegant new house in
course of construction in Detroit Mich
Their. theater III Seattle is said to be
/ the finest playhouse in the United
States outside of New York City, This
theater seats 2l00 persons
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