The Sun Times from Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada • 1

OWEN SOUND ONTt THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6 1941 Three Cents a Copy I NTH TUB on ura nu a a New Theatre's Modern Design Is True Theme Of New Theatre fi i i Face-Lifting Cost $50000 From Secernent to Projection Room New Centra Theatre Is Example of Beauty and Comfort Which Can Bo Combined by Following Latest and Best Discoveries in Art of Theatre Design Wall Kmwb OM Building Bought From Dr Allan Cameron Batata by Kincardine and St Marya Theatre Owners Trans-formad Into Madam Theatre at Cost af $50000 Even the air is modernized in Owen Sound's new Centre Theatre opening on Friday of this week Eleven months bf planning from the time the original building was pur chased in November of last year right through the last-minute preparations made this week have made this city's new entertainment theatre a model of its kind 1 When the first patron steps through its doors into the well furnished foyer and down to his or her luxuri ously upholstered seat on -Friday evening modem design will be in evidence every where aComeJet us enter the theatre and inspect it from basement to projection room Coming from the intersection of 10th and 2nd avenue east in the heart of the 1 city's business section we move northward a few steps on the west side of 2nd avenue east We note with interest and admiration the modem vitrolite structural glass and stainless steel front supplied by Vitrolite Products of Canada Ltd and the handsome marquee We step past the smart glass brick in the southern corner of the building and buy our ticket at the wicket at the opposite side of the entrance Then we enter the lobby through one of the Continued on Page 3 Product of a $50000 job of oonstructural faca-lifting the new ultra-modem Centre Theatre has arisen out of one of Owen Sound's well-known old buildings A great change has been wrought in the three-storey brick building which Kniffen of Kincardine and Sutherland of St Marys acquired In November of 1940' Of that building only one side wall half of another and the front wall remain All the remainder of the building is new Even that portion of the original building which remains has been trarjsfgiTMd out of all recognition The front of the building once of con aventional brick with the usual large plate glass windows fhO''fouhd floor and cipher windows above'has been transformed into a modem theatre' front topped by a marquee arid with cream-colored stucco covering the upper portion "of the building All windows have been bricked in except' three circular -windows high up in the building's new face Owners Experienced It was in November of last year that Kniffen and Sutherland acquired the building the purchase from the Dr Allan Cameron Estate being made through Frank Horton well known Owen Sound real estate Continued on Page 2 James Meebaa Manager ef the new Centre Thoatra has been un naeteS with shew bualneN line hie ant werfclnf Save Barn at LlnSwy OnV 17 yean lit have aSueateS In nubile wheel and wllaglats there While eMIl aNsnllng aellsglato at the aea ef II he became a member at the staff af the AcaScmy Thaatn at an usher i Hie evening Sutlw CIS net gravent him from aemelUM hie eUuaatlen earning the SIsMnetlau ef being name head bey tor the wheel Ha waa-leaSer ef the wheel's aaSet ear glayeS basketball an ourlaS 1 ysen hie graSuatlen he became a full-time mam bar ef the staff ef the AuSamy Thaatra No learneS way from the grounl ug Ta his knewteSge ef an uahaito jab he aSSo I geraouat aagualntaneo with the Suttee of aaahler anS ef merman baton being names anS elaatrlelen whenever the theatre ahaneeS te have erne stage shew He aemw hare with a thereugh hneteleSgo ef the varies Sutlw which must be sfflalently gsrtomeS If a thaatn staff la te renSsr the gublle the' utmeel In sarvta PROM THR OAMONT- INTMIOR VflW OP THI NIW OINTRI THIATM CBNTRI THIATM LOOKINO PROM THI BCRIIN a a i i I i ainnaiWiifi issmninnf- eeiiiSin i i rf'i "iiii.