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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Magna Showing Signs of New Life
Deseret News, 26 June 1994, page M1
Article Summary:
“Leo Ware, a 71-year-old engineer and actor, has been working for more than a decade to almost single-handedly renovate the Empress Theater on historic Main Street. Standing amid newlypoured concrete platforms inside the hollow shell of the former movie showplace, he talks about staging live theater productions in the round or showing a short movie for tourists. The theater would seat an audience of 230.”
