The Central Theatre, at 52 Commercial, was open about 1896.^[1]  By 1911, the Variety Theatre appears to have become the Tribune Printing & Publishing building.^[2] The theater was also known as the Peoples Opera House. Commercial Street later became Regent Street. The former theater was demolished to make way for the Eccles Theater.

1. Polk’s Salt Lake City Directory, 1896
2. "Sanborn-Maps", Peoples Opera House (Salt Lake City)