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Motion P i c t u r e X e w s
SIDE VIEW OF UNIQUE COMEDY STRUCTURE. EXTERIOR OF WHICH REVEALS AN IMMENSE DOME.
A Semi-Circular Theatre to House Divine Comedy
FEATURING AN AUDITORIUM SEATING 5,000, IT'S PLAN IS A HALF CIRCLE WITHOUT BALCONIES
A THE AT RE designed for the purpose of housing adequately Norman Bel Geddes' project for staging Dante's Divine Comedy, which the Chicago World's Fair has announced as an intended production:
Auditorium: The auditorium has a capacity of five thousand people. Like a Greek theatre, its plan is a half circle facing the stage without halconies or galleries. No proscenium or curtain divides the auditorium from the stage. A great dome spans the stage and part of the auditorium; the remaining part of the auditorium is covered by a ceiling that curves down into the exterior walls. The absence of balconies and galleries permits a steeper ramp so that each spectator can easily see over the head of the person in front of him.
Acting Stage: The stage, planned from the standpoint of the Inferno. Purgatory, and Paradise episodes, is the only scenery required — all variations being achieved by lighting. In general the stage is circular in form and is composed almost entirely of steps. Its center is a pit. the slope of which rises on the far side to a height of sixtv feet. The near
LONGITUDINAL SECTION, REVEALING THE PITTED CENTER, THE SLOPE OF WHICH RISES 60 FT.
side of the slope terminates in a ledge only oneforth as high which steps down toward the audience in a series of terraces until it reaches the level of the bottom of the pit, where it terminates in a valley running halfway around the circle. Separating this valley from the audience is a wall seven feet high.
Understage: Passagewavs and stair
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