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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Deseret News, 14 September 1979, page B1
Salt Lake's new Symphony Hall immediately became a cultural center for the city when it was opened to the public for tours. People inside the building and on the grounds attested to the potential for the hall's use. The gala opening concert of the Utah Symphony in its new home will be telecast in the Wasatch Front area from Provo to Ogden on KSTU-TV, channel 20. The 8 p.m. Friday performance also will be simulcast by Radio KUER-FM. Stanislaw Skrowaczeski will direct the symphony in its first-ever concert in the hall, which has already won praise for accoustics and aesthetics.
