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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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Princess Theater
Riverton, Utah
 
Status:
Unknown 
Open:
Before 1927  
Closed:
After 1940  
 
The Princiess Theater opened before 1927 and showed movies from about 1935 to 1940.1


1. Polk's Utah Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1927-1928, 1930-1931
2. "Excel fle", movietheatre.org, 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