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 1880 - 1936 (56 years)
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| Name |
Louis Marcus [1] |
| Born |
9 Jan 1880 |
Brooklyn, Kings, NY  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Mayor |
1932 |
Salt Lake City, UT [1] |
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| Reference Number |
9780 |
| Died |
6 Jul 1936 |
Salt Lake City, UT [1] |
| Buried |
Salt Lake City Cemetery - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT [1] |
| Person ID |
I9780 |
aojd |
| Last Modified |
11 Nov 2011 |
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| Notes |
- Marcus was born in Brooklyn, New York, January 9, 1880, and came to Salt Lake City in 1907. He established a movie theater chain in Utah and other intermountain states, and served as the director of two Salt Lake City banks. A Republican, he was the only Jewish mayor of Salt Lake, serving from 1932-1936. Louis Marcus was the city's only Jewish mayor. He served from 1932-1936. E.B. Erwin defeated Marcus in an upset. Louis Marcus was a Salt Lake motion picture pioneer as well as one of the city's more efficient and honest mayors. 1913: The building we know as Capitol Theatre opens in downtown Salt Lake City. 1927: Utah movie pioneer Louis Marcus buys the theater for $300,000, and remodels it, changing the name to Capitol Theatre. A "mighty Wurlitzer" theater organ is installed to accompany silent movies, with Alexander Schreiner (the Tabernacle organist) as its primary musician.When the theatre raised its curtain on September 29, 1927, it had a new name. The Orpheum was now Capitol Theatre. The "all-talking" picture was introduced to Capitol Theatre in 1929 when On Trial, a Warner Brothers feature was projected on the screen with a Victaphone bringing the star's voice to the audience. [1]
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