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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Completes Option on Utah Theatre
Ogden Standard Examiner, 9 March 1925, page 6
Indications that construction work on the new community hotel is soon to begin on the present Reed hotel site at Twenty-fifth street and Washington avenue was given today when the purchase of the site now occupied by the Utah theatre was completed by A. P. Bigelow, president of the Reed Hotel company. The theatre ground was purchased from the D. H. Peery estate and has been under option by Mr. Bigelow for some time.
