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 #:
00060
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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and up, and the footlight should be equipped with splicing-blocks for adjustments. In two-row footlights, the top row should be devoted to white lights, the bottom row to the red, blue and other colored lights. Thirty-two 40-watt lamps (or the equivalent of 1320 watts) may be placed on one 2-wire circuit, and four 40-watt lamps may be placed single row to the foot. All white lamps should be of the 75- or 100-watt nitrogen mazda type; but only 40- or 60-watt mazda lamps on colored circuits, as the "colorine," or coloring matter, will not with- stand the intense heat developed by the nitrogen mazda lamps. In the center of the footlight-trough should be located an individual outlet, on a separate circuit, for use in plugging in a baby-spot, or any apparatus in the orchestra pit, which may be needed. This should, however, work through a dimmer. Sometimes this outlet is used for the watchman's light at night on the stage, but whether or not this use is made of it, the in- stallation should be in every new equipment. Considering next the proscenium strips—that is, the two strips placed up and down on both sides of the proscenium—these should be placed in coves provided for them in the construction of the proscenium arch, and usually running up 56