Kinema Everywhere
A New Kinema Theatre is Being Built in Monroe
Richfield Reaper, 16 October 1920, page 9
The Kinema Consolidated Theatres Co., Inc., A. L. Stallings President and general manager, is expanding auspiciously. A new theater is being built in Monroe, the work on it is well under way and by November 1, if nothing interferes, it will be opened. As soon as conditions will permit, building operations will be started in Salina fora new Kinema. Other cities of southern Utah will follow, and if the company keeps up the speed, president Stallings' fondest dream, "Kinema Everywhere" will soon come true.
The new Kinema of Monroe will be where the Empire theatre used to accommodate the Monroe followers of the silent drama. A new front is being erected, new opera chairs will be installed, a basement is provided to house a modern heating plant, the stage will be remodeled and equipped with the best screen that money can buy and a most elegant curtain which will be opened and closed from the operating room. Equipment and machinery for operating will be of the best so as to insure perfect production of the films. The music will be furnished by the last word in musical instruments, an Ampico Reproducing Piano, which is the same in the player piano line as the phonograph for other music, reproducing the numbers as played by the great artists themselves.
The contract for the reconstruction and building work is in the hands of the Hanson Bros. Planing Mill. Leo Camp was appointed manager of the Monroe Kinema.