Exhibitors Herald World (Jul-Sep 1929)

70 BETTER THEATRES SECTION OF August 3, 192 would feel a hesitancy in signing without consulting his lawyer, the same complications occurring as above mentioned. It is a most unbusinesslike and foolish thing for an architect to proceed without a written contract. In nine cases out of ten it leads to trouble and loss. Many architects hesitate to ask for a written contract because it looks too complicated, and they are not sure of how to draw one, and they hesitate to pay a lawyer to do so. The contract herein described is simple and effective and one with which every architect should protect himself. If he will proceed along these lines he will win the respect of his client because of his businesslike methods. It is not difficult to get an owner to sign such a contract when you use this type of argument. "Now, Mr. Client, you are entrusting me with the expenditure of a large amount of money. You are depending upon me to protect your interests in your relations with various contractors. If I don't have the courage and business ability to protect my own interests what assurance have you that I will protect yours ?" That's a very effective and conclusive argument and if you use it you will have very little difficulty in getting this simple type of contract duly signed, and we think if you take it to your lawyer, you will find that you have a contract. As we have said, we feel that this schedule of professional charges as arranged by the Architects' League of Hollywood may be improved. It probably will be, but don't lose sight of the fact that as it stands it is so good that it will afford you a measure of protection you have probably never had before, and that it has stood the test of fire and been found a thoroughly practical, workable, and usable document. We recommend that you boost for its general adoption and that you have copies of it framed and put up in your office. When the subject of fees comes up, have it handy so that your client can read it. 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Calculating Depreciation of Theatre Equipment {Continued from page 18) etc., would still have several years of norm; remaining life and should still be reflecte . on the exhibitor's balance sheet, which is nc possible when using a 'composite' rate. There are also several further types of thi atre equipment which are frequently classifie as building equipment, because of their longc life and because the construction of the buile ing or structure proper has to take them int consideration. However, an exhibitor fn quently has to make such installations into a otherwise equipped theatre. Experience h; disclosed that the normal life for such typt of equipment, for modern deluxe houses, rt quires annual depreciation rates as follows: Rate of 4% per year.— Electrical work (wii ing, conduits, outlets, building switchboan etc.), plumbing, radiators, steam lines an other piping, and sprinkler system. Rate of 5% per year.— Elevators, countei weight system and elevating machinery fc orchestra platform and organ console. Rate of 6 2/3% per year.— Refrigeratin and ventilating system, drinking water coolin system and boiler room equipment. Rate of 10% per year.— Painting, decon tions and murals, ticket booths and poste frames, and acoustical treatment. Rate of 20% per year.— Linoleum and rut ber flooring, and miscellaneous building equij ment. Generally speaking, depreciation rates at necessarily based on experience, and an e> hibitor has merely to pursue his record of rt placement outlays for ten or 12 years bad bearing in mind the changing conditions in th industry, particularly as to improvements i types and standards of equipment, and appl the findings to his own situation, establishin depreciation rates accordingly. True an orga may outlast ten years. The rates indicate are merely averages for the several classifies tions as indicative of the average normal lib If an organ, let us say, is replaced after nin years and has been given a ten year life, it ij manifest that the undepreciated value, less an salvage or turn-in allowance, will have to b absorbed as further depreciation in the nint year. It sometimes happens for certain typt of equipment, that the turn-in allowance i larger than the undepreciated balance, so tha instead of an additional charge to depreciatiot a credit results. Inversely, an organ may nc be replaced until the twelfth year, in whic case it is fully depreciaed in the tenth yeai and no depreciation is required in the elevent and twelfth years. Emphasis is laid on th fact that the rates cited are merely average: based on experience for the various types o equipment, and what may hold true for on theatre is not necessarily the rule for anothe theatre, and that is why averages are em ployed.