The Film Daily (1935)

THE -cB2!± DAILY Saturday, Nov. 23, 1935 » » THEATER IMPROVEMENT NOTES « « New York — During the past year, 30,000 new seats have been installed in Warner theaters, with work being done by Ideal. Four different type chairs have been adopted by the circuit as standards. Estimate is made that 50,000 yards of carpet has been laid in the circuit's houses during the past year. Golden, Colo. — R. A. Preuss has arranged for the installation of new RCA High Fidelity sound in his Gem. Philadelphia — Warners are rebuilding the Leader, which seats 1,000. The house will be ready by Christmas. Philadelphia — Lobby of the Stanley, Stanley-Warner de luxer, has been modernized, as has its retiring rooms. John Eberson, architect, did the job. Denver — Western Electric announces the installation of wide range sound equipment in these South Dakota houses: the Majestic at Sturgis, the Vita at Spearfish, and the Rex at Rapid City. Philadelphia — RCA Photophone engineers have installed an elaborate High Fidelity stage sound re-enforcement system in the Warner Brothers Earle, one of the two big AIR CONDITIONING MM PHOON ONDITIONINGCQ BLOWERS -FANS AIR WASHERS 252 West 26th St., New York TICKETS ARE MONEY Don't take a chance on losses — through resale and misappropriation. Keep your tickets under lock and key in a modern Gold Seal or Model "H". '1 I GENERAL REGISTER CORPORATION 1540 Broadway, New York, N. Y. picture-vaudeville houses in Philadelphia. New York — The Riviera, at Genesco, which is operated by Livingstone Theaters, of Oneida, is being equipped with new Photophone High Fidelity sound by Mr. Brownell, the manager. The Hertzberg Amusement Co. of Batavia, has remodelled the Auditorium, at Perry, and installed new RCA High Fidelity sound in it. New York— The Park West has contracted for a Western Electric Wide Range attachment. Jacksonville — The Roxy, operated by Duval Amusements of Lakeland, a Sparks Circuit unit, has replaced its old sound with Photophone High Fidelity equipment, according to B. B. Garner, general manager. Evansville, Wis. — Western Electric Wide Range has been added to the Magee's sound equipment. Columbus, Neb. — Harry Weinberg, general manager of General Theaters, and Myron Blank, have arranged for the installation of RCA High Fidelity sound in the Swan. Cuyahoga Falls, O. — Western Electric Wide Range goes into the Ohio soon. Iowa Falls, la. — William A. Middleton has installed new Photophone High Fidelity sound in his Rex here. Flushing, L. I. — A Western Electric Wide Range attachment has been contracted for by the Roosevelt. Dallas — Two more Dallas theaters have installed RCA High Fidelity sound equipment recently. They are the New Village, in Highland Park, operated by the Interstage Circuit, which is associated with the Hoblitzelle Circuit, and the Columbia, operated by L. E. Harrington and P. G. Cameron. S. R. Fickling, of Pontotac, has purchased a portable Photophone sound equipment for a new theater there. Grenada, Miss. — Remodeling of the Grenada has been completed at (Continued on Page 6) QUII BUSINES 1 I in YEAR 'ROUND AIR C( By E. Chief Engineer, Typl IT is now becoming evident to most theater owners that air conditioning means more ' than comfort cooling. Designed for comfort and health, air conditioning must do year 'round duty, and so heating should be included. Involved in year 'round air conditioning are problems which a system for summer or winter does not present. The building is heated in winter by supplying air at a temperature higher than the room temperature. This warmer air compensates for the normal loss of heat through walls. In summer the opposite condition exists and air colder than that in the room is supplied, which compensates for the outside heat that leaks in through the walls and for heat of occupants. Winter and summer the room is maintained at a constant fixed temperature by supplying air at a higher temperature than the room in one case and at a lower temperature in the other. Two separate systems of air distribution would be clumsy and expensive, so the same air supply systems must serve for both cases. Warm air is light and tends to rise, and cold, heavy air settles to the floor. In rooms with low ceilings the tendency to vertical motion is not so strong for the same reason that low chimneys produce less draft than high ones do. The high ceilings in theaters produce much stronger downward currents of cold air and upward movements of warm air than low rooms, and unless the designer, regardless of how experienced he is in general air conditioning, is thoroughly familiar with practice in large auditoriums, he had better beware. In summer the cold heavy air has a natural tendency to fall to the floor, where the people are. It must be thoroughly mixed and diffused so that it is distributed evenly when it finally reaches the floor. In winter, warm air from the same outlets now tends to rise to the ceiling, where the people are not, and it must be diffused and by forced circulation drawn down to the occupied level. Aside from a few minor faults such as drafts and occasional hot spots, it is probable that the majority of modern air conditioning systems are fairly successful as far as distribution is concerned for summer cooling. In all cases the air is either supplied from the ceiling or by horizontal outlets from the walls, which are designed to mix the air supply in the upper part of the room before it settles to the floor. The same systems which function properly for cooling, do not in many cases work satisfactorily for heating and for winter air conditioning. This is particularly true of balcony houses. Here the natural tendency for upward movement of warm air results, in all too many cases, in 90° balcony temperature and 60° orchestra's. The biggest single factor that contributes to these conditions is that the systems are designed to handle a relatively small volume of high temperature air. It is common practice in small hot air heating systems to supply air at 130° to 150° and in small rooms this is entirely satisfactory. In a theater, however, these temperatures will invariably result in a strata of hot air at the ceiling, which in itself is wasteful as the loss through the roof is enormous, and very poor heating at the floor level. The same amount of heat contained in a much larger volume of air at 85° to 90° can be circulated and thoroughly mixed so as to maintain at even temperature, of 70° at the floor with not more than 2° or 3° higher at the rear of the balcony. 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