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

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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 #:
00052
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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trician or other proper official, re-checked by- representative of National Board of Under- writers, and EVERY effort made to see that they are complete in every detail. We will now consider separately, the HOUSE LIGHTING, STAGE LIGHTING and INCIDEN- TAL electrical system: House Lighting: Including front of theatre, lobby, foyer, auditorium, incidental rooms, and in general all lighting in front of curtain line. Inasmuch as the failure of lights, wholly or partly, may not only ruin an act or a show, but may cause panic as well, emphasis is again laid upon the necessity of the house lighting system being of an approved type and in ac- cordance with codes. In recent years a truly wonderful improve- ment has been made in lighting systems and methods; in fact, the old style of direct light- ing from ornate, elaborate, dust-gathering fix- tures has become almost obsolete. In general, there are now three recognized systems of lighting, termed respectively direct, SEMI-DIRECT and indirect. Of these the first- named is the oldest, and now-a-days the least desirable. It was thought that the direct sys- tem provided a hundred per cent of lighting efficiency, but it is now known that it does not; 48