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Thorley Theater
Cedar City, Utah
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Colonial Theatre
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Colonial Theatre was built by the Auerbach brothers in 1908 at a cost of $150,000 to show plays by traveling companies with the Northwestern Theatrical Association. The interior was decorated with ivory and gold, with green sidewalls, carpets and draperies. It had a seating capacity of 1936, with box seats and two balconies. It showed movies as the Victory Theatre. About 1942 it was destroyed by fire.
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Thorley Theater
Cedar City, Utah
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Before 1914
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After 1945
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The Thorley Theater opened before 19141 and showed movies from about 1930 to 1945.2
The first showing (but not the world premiere) of Cecil B. DeMille's "Unioin Pacific" (1938) was at the Thorley Theater in Cedar City. The movie was filmed in Utah.3
1. Polk's Utah Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1914-1915, 1918-1919, 1920-1921, 1922-1923, 1927-1928, 1930-1931
2. "Rural 2", movie-theatre.org, listing as its sources the Film Weekly Film Journal yearbooks 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 and International motion picture almanacs 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2000
3. "They Came This'A Way," by James V. D'Arc, , Mountainwest Magazine (March 1978), page 23 & "Chapter 7: The Early Twentieth Century: 1900 to 1940", A History of Iron County, by Janet Burton Seegmiller
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