Roosevelt Twin Theatre
Roosevelt, Utah
George H. Harrison and R. Howard Harrison opened the $40,000 Roosevelt Theatre on Valentine's Day, 14 February 1942, with Shirley Temple in Kathleen. The “modern up-to-the minute motion picture theatre” was described as “new, beautiful, and elaborately equipped.” The interior color scheme was peach, green, and beige, with red velour curtains and drapes. The 500 seats in the auditorium were “arranged on a slight arc so that every seat directly faces the screen.” The stage was large and had floodlights, so the theater could “accommodate many types of entertainment” and serve as “a community playhouse as well as a motion picture theatre.”
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Utah Briefs
Daily Herald, 11 October 1979, page 47
Utah's oldest drive-in thater has filed suit in federal court claiming a California-based theater chain mis-appropriated its name.
The Riverdale Theatre Corp., which has operated a drive-in in Riverdale since 1941, brought suit against Mann Theatres.
The drive-in claims exclusive rights to use of word "Riverdale" in its name. The court suit said Mann built a four-theater complex at the Riverdale Mall which it named the Riverdale Plaza Theaters.
Riverdale Drive-in acused Mann of "parasitical misappropriation" of the drive-in goodwill through use of "names which are deceptively similar."
