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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Manti Messenger, 2 February 1912, page 2
Salt Lake City – The interior of the Shubert theater, 321 South Main street was destroyed by fire Friday morning. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Baker and five small children, the eldest of whom is 13 years, all of whom were sleeping in the second story of the building, narrowly escaped death and did not leave the burning structure until the entire building was in flames and until two circles of the theater had collapsed.
