Exhibitors Herald (1927)

40 BETTER THEATRES SECTION OE March 19, 1927 Perfect Control of Your Curtain from Any Point of Your House THE A.D.C. CURTAIN CONTROL SMOOTH— SILENT— COMPACT— ECONOMICAL Quiet operation one of its greatest features is accomplished by the rubber curtain rollers and ball bearing steel pulley wheels in the enclosed track. Explanation of its other many features will be mailed upon request. AUTOMATIC DEVICES COMPANY 737 Hamilton Street Allentown, Pa. The Perfect Motor Generator Set STABILARC The experience of exhibitors, dealers and projection engineers were freely drawn upon in designing this Motor-Generator Set STABILARC. Every part of the equipment represents the best of material and workmanship. Manufactured in Series and Multiple types and in all commercial voltages, cycles, phases and sizes. SIMPLE RELIABLE EFFICIENT ECONOMICAL No Stumbling Patrons — Kaus-a-Lite Shows the Way! The perfect Aisle Light. Installed in almost every theatre of note in the country. Write now and let us tell you why. Adaptable to any kind of theatre teat* Fit» directly under arm of aisle chair. KAUSALITE MANUFACTURING CO. 8129 Rhodes Ave. Chicago Kaus-a-Lite Light Without a Glare! Describes House of 750 Seats for a Town of 3,500 {Continued from page 24) is extremely flexible in use; — on the moderate day, one unit will be fired; on the average Winter’s day, two units will be brought in and on that only occasional extreme day when the weather hits zero will the three units be fired. The Clyde building is 50'xl30' with a 35' clear height in auditorium with an exit court for emergency use 8' wide and an alley also used as an exit 12' wide with about 50' of space left at the rear for such use as the future may dictate. The lot slopes downward from the street to the rear about 7' which all combines to surround the work with conditions approaching an ideal for the economic and correct construction of a modern theatre, costing a short $60,000. * * * The*lay of the business section and the street determined the placement of the theatre some 10' to 12' back from the existing sidewalk-line, which again offers an unusual opportunity for a broad approach and a setting somewhat monumental in character, which is augmented by the use of small grass-plots on each flank trimmed with a few small evergreens of the Japanese variety and a pair of refined metal light-standards. As time passes, it may develop that this little landscaping feature may have to give way to the hard, merciless and dull concrete of the present day, — but we have hopes that the small plots of living color through Winter and Summer will prove so valuable in practice, — as to be very well worth-while indeed. The Clyde will open some time in the early Summer to come. Decorating the THEATRE (Confijiued from page 11) sort of a rough-texture can be developed, from the most refined stipple to the “shaggiest” Spanish “palm finish.” Sand-swirl, twxi-tone and dozens of other effects also are easily obtained. And the color range is limited only by the colors, and the combinations of colors on the market. Plastic paint comes in the form of a white powder. Before application it is mixed with water and mineral pigment of good oil color. It will go over virtually any surface. Properly treated it can be washed down with soap and water as often as it is soiled. What can be done with plastic paint is better illustrated by pictures than by text. The photographs shown are of only a few of the effects possible. KANSAS CITY, MO.— The Warwick theatre. 3937 Main Street, owned by E. W. Werner, 3360 Gilham Road, will be remodeled and enlarged. Plans by Boiler Bros., 114 West 10th St., Kansas City, Mo. New floors, seats, interior and one story addition to building will be made. « KANSAS CITY, MO.— A theatre costing $125,000 will be erected at 4608 Troost Street by Rockhill Theatre Building Company, 608 Bryant Bldg. Shepard & Wiser, 1208 R. A. Long Bldg., are the architects. General Contract let to Reyburn Engineering & Construction Co., 609 Waldheim Bldg. * KANSAS CITY, MO.— M. B. Shanberg, Midland Theatre and Realty Co., 20 E. 14th St., will erect a theatre on 13th St. between Main and Baltimore. Thomas W. Lamb & Co., 644 Eighth Ave., N. Y., are architects.