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time after installation, with the attendant loss and inconvenience to the theatre owner. The trend recently has been towards better seating in all classes of motion picture theatres, from the small three-hundred-seat house to the large metropolitan houses seating upwards of two thousand persons. In fact, some of the verylarge operators, such as William Fox and Marcus Loew, of New York, have seated their houses with chairs of the full upholstered type equal in all respects to the chairs in use in the iirst-class metropolitan theatres. A chair of a more moderate price which is proving quite popular with the medium and smaller motion picture houses is what is technically termed semi-upholstered. By this is meant that the back is upholstered, while the seat is of built-up wood, or vice versa.
There are many so-called steel opera chairs to-day, mostly made of common "T" steel, which the average architect and contractor will emphatically state is no material for opera chair furniture. The standards of the American Steel Sanitary Opera Chairs are made of triangular steel tubing formed in specially designed machines and electrically welded throughout, erected and installed in such manner that all possible chance of dust-collecting crevices is eliminated. This feature was brought out in these chairs, as it is entirely impossible to have a large corps of cleaners to take care of the chairs, as in our larger theatres.
The substantial construction of these chairs, they being so united by the electric welding as to have the strength of a continuous piece of metal, coupled with the added advantage of being the only steel chairs on the market equipped with a mechanically perfect and indestructible seat hinge, should create a large demand for them.