Mimes Theater
Created from part of the Union building in 1921 after a fire and originally called the Union Playhouse. It had a seating capacity of 400. In February, 1922, the theater was taken over by the Mimes Society, a student drama organization, and called the Mimes Theater. It formally opened as the Laboratory Theater on December 1, 1930 when the Regents decided to rent the theater from the Union, and presented it to the Speech Department for their use. Shortly thereafter, the theater was condemned as a fire hazard and razed to make way for a parking lot behind the new Administration Building.; 
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