Motion Picture News (Oct-Dec 1930)

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Motion Picture News Open-Air Cabaret AT several positions in the Exhibition Grounds, large restaurant areas must be located to handle the immense crowd, all of whom will want to eat at approximately the same hours. The plan is for a large open air cabaret Og; that seats 2,500 people — an American "beer garden." Main Building: The main entrance is a threestory building containing : lounges for men and women, offices, dressing rooms for entertainers, rooms for electricians and mechanics, kitchens and pantries. Stage: Directly in front of the building is a small quadrant shaped stage from which runs a continuous platform five feet wide, and at an average height of four feet above the ground floor level, in the form of two interlacing squares. The sides of this platform are walled up and it forms the stage "apron." The performers, that is, singers, jugglers, acrobats, monologists, chorus or band, enter from the stage quadrangle and (Continued on page 104) AN open air theatre for water pageants built on a group of anchored barges in a lake, with the stage separated from the auditorium and entirely surrounded by water. Auditorium : The auditorium seats two thousand people. There is additional area for 500 canoes (these are the choice seats) bringing the total capacity to 3,500 people. Three main aisles divide the auditorium into five main sections. In addition there are outside aisles and a promenade at the back of each section. The two side sections rise from four feet to thirteen feet above the water level : the two center sections rise from four feet to twenty-two feet above the water level. In the rear of each section are wide flights of stairs leading down to the landing docks. To the sides and rear of the auditorium radiate piers supplying dock facilities for seven hundred and sixtveight small boats simultaneously. At the rear of the auditorium, are the lounges and toilets for men and women. Canal: Separating the auditorium from the stage is a canal sixty-four feet wide, a portion of which is roped off for five hundred canoes from which the occupants can watch the pageant without landing. At either end of this canal are traffic towers to control the movements of canoes. (Continued on page 104)