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Grand Falls Opera House Opens Historic Great Falls Landmark
Fifty years after Great Falls announced an opera house plan, the Grand theater opened January 4 1892 as a 115 by 60 foot building with a 1400 person capacity. The Canuck first played while Helena’s E. D. Weed spoke for residents, and the project drew Paris Gibson H O Chowen and other leaders toward a 100000 stock company to fund a 43000 building with 20000 already pledged.
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Great Falls
Opera House
Cascade County
the Tribune
Thespis
Board of Trade
J. Bookwalter
The
Tribune
Oscar Cobb
Chicago
Cobb
J. K. Clark & Co
Paris Gibson
H. O. Chowen
T. E. Collins
A. E. Dickerman
C. M. Webster
J. H. McKnight
Charles Wegner
Ira Myers
Helena
Montana
Butte
United States
Powers & Davis
St. Paul
Medicine Lake
McKee Rankin
Daily Press
Kathie
Enea the
Curiosity Shop
Peet Ant Gee
St. Paul’s Episcopal Choir of
Fort Benton
William Hough
C. D. Crutcher
R. Stanley
J. C. Showell
Ezra Crane
G. ©. McFarland
Helen Murphy
Spain
Third Street
Victoria
Britain
Great Falls Opera House
J. K. Hesler
Oscar Vanderbilt
Fannie A. Sutton
Will Steege
Tome