Weekly journal-miner., 1920-03-17
Enterprise Will Be Put Up For Richards And Mace On "Journal-Miner" Lot; Com pletion By August.
PICTURE PALACE IS TO
 EMBODY LATEST IDEAS
Construction May Mark Open ing Of Big Building Boom; Other Improvements Are In Prospect.
(From Sundays Daily)

Prescott is to have a real high | class theater. The details for the new enterprise were worked out yesterday when Jo E. Richards, of the firm of Richards & Mace, accompanied by A. E. Curlett, famous Los Angeles architect, arrived from Phoenix to tie the ends of the promotion for leasing the property with J. w. Mines, the representative of the lots on which the structure will be erected.
 The plans call for modern thea ter. fully equipped with stage, dress ing rooms and ventilating and heat ing plants, seated with full uphol stered chairs and constructed along hreproof lines.
 The building will occupy the 50 foot frontage adjoining the Jour nal-Aliner" building, extending 150 feet back to the alley, and will seat when completed, 1000 people. The front of the new structure will be done in colored terra cotta worked out in design to conform to a repro duction of the new $l5OOOO theater now being constructed ill Phoenix for the same firm The name "Rialto" will be given the local house and huge electric sign GOV ering the front will flash the name over the top ill colored lights.
 The lobby of the theater is to oc- cupy the center of the 50 foot front age and two store buildings will parallel the entrance, while several suites of modern offices will be To- cated over the lobby and store fronts.
 The building proper will contain besides a spacious downstairs seat ing plan fine roomly logue balcony, | which will be equipped with tapestry 1 chairs and done along the lines sug- gested by the California and Grau- man theatcrs of Los Angeles.
 The building of the local "Rialto" adds the seventh theater to the chain ! of Richards & Mace of Phoenix and will be booked in conjunction with ! their other road houses, assuring the cream of the picture world, while | their road show affiliations will give to the local theatergoers an oppor- tunity to witness performances of the | big travelling shows that from time to time make the state cn route to the coast.
 Richards & Mace, who will manage the new house, have in Phoenix the palatial Strand theater, Arizona'S fin est picture house; the Lamara and Hippodromc thcatcrs, and will open April first the newly constructed Ramona, also in Phoenix; while the $l25,OOO "Rialto" of Tucson will throw open it's doors on or about May IS, and 1t is expected that Pres cott'5 "Rialto" will be completed and ready to join the string about Octo- Der l, at which time the firm will dedicate their "Rialto" theatcr in No gales.
 The parent theater ill the "Rialto" string will be located at Phoenix and was started yesterday, when a 20 year lease was signed by Richards & Mace for the J. L. B. Alexander property on Washington street be- tween First avenue and Center
 Richards, accompanied by Mir. Cur lett, the architect, left last night for Los Angeles to purchase the material for the interior of the thcatcr, and 1 they will meet J. w. Mines there tomorrow to go over plans with ! whom they have arranged to furnish l the construction.
 While the contract will call for i the completion of the theater on September first, it IS hoped 10 throw l open the doors on or about August first, when big travcling New York l attraction will be engaged to aus piciously start the new venture on it's career.
 The coming of the splendid mod crn lhcater marks the beginning of an era of building in Prescott that may sec d new hotel open in the lail. and many civic improvements to place the city abreast of the splendid