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Show THEATER ON HUDSON AVENUE IS TO COST APPROXIMATELY $150,000 Land 90 Feet by 190 Feet Secured on Which the Second Largest Moving Picture Theater Building in the World is to be Erected Deal Closed at 5 P. M., Yesterday Company Com-pany Started With the Electric Theater in Ogden Six Years Ago With a Capacity of 197 and Now Is a Half-Million Half-Million Corporation Owning Houses With a Seating Capacity Ca-pacity of 9,000 Chas. Zeimer, Albert Scowcroft and Harry Sims Make1 Up the Company. Ogden withiu six months is to have one of the two largest and finest moving mov-ing picture theatres in the world. The structure will be built by the Alhambra Theatre company, which owus the American theatre In Salt Lake City, which 1b conceded to be the best of its kind and the Ogden playhouse will equal it in every respect. re-spect. The new theatre will be built on Hudson avenue, between the Hurst and Colonel Hudson building on the property owned by Fred J. Klesel. This decision was reached at 5 o'clock yesterday when Mr. KIoboI purchased a piece of property, adjoining that, which he already owned, from the Dee-JEccles estates and Mrs. Sylvia Al-vord, Al-vord, this being necessary to give the Alhambra Theatre company the depth and frontage desired for the new building. The new building, which will bo called the "Alhambra," according to the -plans of the company, will have a frontage of 85 feet, 8 inches on Hudson Hud-son avenue, and a depth of 190 feeL It will be a one-story building, 50 feet in height, with an auditorium 45 feet high, and a seating capacity of 2500 on the ground floor. There will bo no balcony and the architectural architec-tural designs, heating and ventilating ventilat-ing system, will be similar to the American theatre in Salt Lake City. The lobby will be 40 feet in depth and will be a model of elegance. One of the special features of the equipment of the theatre will be a $10,000 pipe organ, which will be one of the finest that can be secured. The building will cost approximately approximate-ly ?150,000 and will be of brick, steel and concrete, which will make It virtually vir-tually fire-proof. The cleaning of the grounds preparatory prepa-ratory to erecting the building will begin be-gin Monday morning and it Is expected expect-ed that the house will be ready for use within six months. The "only excavating that will be done, with the exception of that for the foundation, will be for a room, in which the heating heat-ing and ventilating plant will be installed. in-stalled. When, the building is erected, a space of 10 feet In width and 190 feet in depth will be left between the theatre and the Colonel Hudson "building, to be utilized as an exit and a light-well. Half of this space wiil be given up for that use by Mr. Klesel Kle-sel and half by the Alhambra Theatre The-atre company. The Alhambra Theatre company has a history of growth, probably un-equaled un-equaled by any other company of its kind in the world, In the same length of time. It got, its start in the Electric Elec-tric theatre, just cast of the Reed hotel on Twenty-fifth street six years ago, under tho management of II. A. Sims. This house had a seating capacity ca-pacity of 197 persons. Its next venture ven-ture was the Oracle theatre on Washington Wash-ington avenue, and then in succession, succes-sion, tho Globe and the Isls on the same avenue. The companv then began to branch out and started moving mov-ing picture houses in Boise, Poca-tello Poca-tello and Twin Falls, Idaho; Logan, Utah, and Rock Springs, Wyo. Its last move was to enter the moving picture Hold in Salt Lake City, first buying the Liberty theatre on State street, with its seating capacity of 1100 and then capped the climax by erecting the American theatro on Main street, which Is at present the finest moving picture house in the world. The company now owns houses hou-ses In Boise, and Pocatello, the two mentlonod in Salt Lake City, and three In Ogden, and when the new Alhambra Alham-bra Is built in Ogden, the seating capacity of Its h,ouses will have grown from Its original 197 at the Electric to nearly 9000 and the value of Us original property, which was about $1000, to $500,000. The officers offi-cers and stockholders of the company are: Charles Zeimer, president; Albort Scowcroft, vice president; and H. A. Sims, secretary and treasurer. |