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Surprise Theatre
Bountiful, Utah
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Isis Theater
Salt Lake City, Utah
Open in 1908, the Isis Theatre was one of the first motion picture theaters in Salt Lake City. Its manager in 1910 was Max Florence, who a year later tried to blackmail the LDS Church by selling amateur photos of the Salt Lake Temple interior. Dan Kostopulos, a benefactor of underprivileged children, later renamed it the Broadway Theatre. In a 1976 press conference, Palace Theatre operator Lee Harper complained bitterly of persecution, made acusations of police brutality, threatened the life of a local judge, and accused the LDS Church of being involved with the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luthar King.
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Surprise Theatre
Bountiful, Utah
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12 May 1909
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Lamoni Call opened the Surprise Theatre on 12 May 1909, about three months after the Bountiful Opera House was destroyed by fire. The Surprise Theatre was “centrally located.” The opening night was well attended and “the machinery and everything worked like a charm.”[1]
After its first month in business, the Surprise Theatre added additional showings on Thursday and Monday to help alleviate crowded houses on Wednesday and Saturday.[2]
In July 1910, a company incorporated and raised three-fouths of the stock necessary to buy and enlarge the Surprise Theatre. The building would have been lengthened to 110 feet, increasing the seating capacity from 200 to 500. A “strictly modern” stage would be added, “sufficiently large to accommodate the best traveling troupes that visit small towns.”[3]
1. “Bountiful Briefs”, Davis County Clipper, 14 May 1909, page 8
2. “Big Crowds at Surprise Theatre”, Davis County Clipper, 18 June 1909, page 1
3. “Surprise Theatre”, Davis County Clipper, 8 July 1910, page 1
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