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 #:
000283
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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their apparatus, and unobstructed space in which to work. Minutes lost here may cost hundreds of lives and thousands of dollars. If audiences know that the exits are ample, that the aisles are wide, that the house is fireproof, that the fire-extingiilshing equipment is sufficient, that it is the custom of the man- agement to pay attention to safeguarding pa- trons, panic is much less likely to occur than when publicity has not been given to these points, or the public is not well informed con- cerning them. We know that the larger number of theatre fires start after performances are over and the house closed for the night. Next in number are those which occur during a show, starting on the stage, in a dressing-room, boiler-room or in scenery, caused as a rule by electrical short-cir- cuit or other trouble, cigarette stubs, discharge of firearms, defective flues, or spontaneous com- bustion of waste paper, oily cloths, etc. Usually, the fire which starts during a show is extin- guished before it does any damage, but it may NOT be; hence the desirability of eliminating EVERY POSSIBLE CAUSE of a firc. This involves THOROUGH cleanliness around and behind radi- ators, packs of scenery, and in corners, etc. It involves precaution in the use of firearms, elec- 279