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Desert Star Theatres
4861 South State Street
Murray, Utah
84107
(801) 266-2600
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Regency Theatre
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ABC Intermountain Theatres opened the Regency Theatre on 19 July 1972. The $750,000 cinema featured 780 seats and a curved Tecnikote XR 171 screen measuring 50 feet wide by 22 feet high. Red curtains from R. L. Grosh & Sons rotated behind the screen instead of gathering at the sides. The booth featured dual Century 35/70mm projectors with Christie CHF xenon consoles and 3,000-watt bulbs. Cineplex Odeon relegated the Regency to dollar theater service on 6 June 1989, then closed it permanently on 25 March 1990. The former theater was later remodeled into a three-story office building.
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Photographer: Grant Smith
Date: 4 July 2003
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Desert Star Theatres
(New Iris Theatre, Vista Theatre, Desert Star Playhouse)
4861 South State Street
Murray, Utah
84107
(801) 266-2600
http://desertstar.biz/
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1930
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Tony and Marguerite Duvall purchased the 16-unit Iris Apartment Building in 1923, and on the north side of it they built a small theater called The Gem. In 1930 the Duvalls demolished The Gem and the Iris Apartment Building, replacing them with the larger New Iris Theater and an 8-unit apartment building.1
In 1954 Duvall sold the New Iris Theater to the Sid Horman Construction Company, which then sold the theater to Art Proctor.1 Proctor, who also operated the Avalon Theater and the Blue Mouse, changed the name of the theater from Iris to Vista. The name Vista was chosen because it would cost less to change the sign if two letters of the original name were reused.
In 1989, Desert Star Theatrics remodeled the Vista theater and reopened
it as the Deseret Star Playhouse, a family-style dinner-theater
featuring musical melodramas with light refreshments, soft drinks, and
free popcorn on the tables. The stage was enlarged and the theaters
seats were replaced with small, cabaret-style tables. They planned to
later add pizza and ice cream to the menu and to enhance the sightlines
by terracing the floor and adding raised sections along the sides of
the auditorium.
The opening of the Desert Star Playhouse was scheduled for 3 November
1989, but had to be delayed until 17 November 1989 because of problems
in meeting Murray City's building codes.2 & 3
1. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Murray Theater
2. "MELODRAMA THEATER MAY OPEN FRIDAY", Deseret News, 29 October 1989, page E11
3. "HISS-TORICAL SETTING FOR MELODRAMA TROUPE", Deseret News, 3 November 1989, page W1)
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