The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management (1918)

Record Details:

Title:
The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management
Date:
1918
Publisher:
New York : Gotham press, inc.
Volume:
The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management
Leaf #:
00032
Language:
English
Collection:
Theatre and Vaudeville and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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arguments of their supporters, systems other than "direct radiation" with live steam as the heating agent, have in actual practice, fallen short of the requirements of the theatre, which here, as in most other departments, presents problems peculiar to itself. Here we have a large roofed auditorium which prior to the time of shows requires con- siderable heat to be generated and radiated to warm it; then during the brief half-hour that it is being filled with people, the doors are con- stantly opened, requiring still more heat to keep it from being chilled; yet shortly after it is filled, the animal or body heat given off by the people in it necessitates a rapid reduction in the amount of heat being radiated, which is re- placed by that from the bodies of the audience. Ample boiler or generating capacity, com- bined with intelligently calculated radiating sur- face, properly placed, and the use of steam as the heating agent, has again and again proved its superiority to every other known heating system, and in the writer's opinion will hold its position of supremacy in this field. As a general proposition, the radiation should be greater in the lobby and near outside open- ings, than in spaces walled up or closed; for if the cold air which comes into the house during 28