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14 .THE MOTION PICTURE it gives opportunity for decorative efforts without the expense of decorating the entire front of the business house; it suggests retire- ment in the theater, and when the prospective patron steps off the sidewalk he feels that he is already within the theater, even before he has purchased his admission ticket. The entrance and exit doors in the partition should be double doors. The entrance doors at A should swing both ways, while the exit doors at B should swing outward but not inward. The ticket booth in Fig. 1 is 6 feet by 5 feet inside, with a shelf 1 foot wide across the front for making change. The three glass windows should be made with removable sash in order that screen wire or grille may be substituted in the warm weather. The operating booth occupying the upper part of the space D is built over the ticket booth upon an elevated platform about 5 by 9 feet in size. As the patrons of the theater are required to pass under this platform it should be built upon a platform about 7 feet from the floor. A stanchion is set from floor to ceiling at E, about 9 feet from the side wall and 5 feet from the partition, and with this stanchion as a corner post a platform is built to cover the space D, then closed in with walls from the platform to the ceiling to form the operating room. Windows for projection and lookout are left in the wall toward the screen J, and another window may be left in the end for ventilation and over the doors A in the partition. Entrance to the operating room is obtained by means of the ladder at F, which extends upward along the wall and through a hole about 30 inches square in the floor of the operating room. Below the operating-room platform, extending from the stanchion E to the wall, a screen G should be placed to prevent the light of the street from reaching the screen when the doors A are open; this may be a curtain hung from the edge of the operator's booth. The doorkeeper stands at the post marked H. A movable chain or bar is provided to extend from the stanchion E to the wall of the ticket booth to close the passage at the dotted line /. This enables the doorkeeper to hold back patrons who come so near the close of a picture or act that they would be interfered with by patrons passing out, or by patrons for whom there is no seat. The piano may be at K, either automatic or manual. The screen J is shown at one side of the center; this has two advantages in the 178