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HE MODERN JL STAGE NEEDS THE FINEST OF RIGGING
While the average number of a theatre audience has little knowledge of the equipment essential to smoothly working curtains or swift and silent scene changes it is, nevertheless, a source for a large share of his genuine entertainment. The perfection of modern rigging is a big factor in the attainment of realistic and effective stage productions second only in importance to the development of stage lighting. ([ When it's National rigging, up goes the asbestos or front curtain — swiftly, silently as the projector plays its first title across the screen, or the ballet registers its first good kick for the evening. It matters little what scenic changes and effects the stage show or the vaudeville bill demand. . . . The solo danseuse may float gently to earth, perched on a great orange blossom as often as her manager will permit. . . . The song and dance team can hoof its fill before its favorite drop. ... It takes only a few seconds of noiseless movement to bring down the "Night Sky" before which the acrobatic Burling family
works. When the final curtain sweeps down again to close the show or pauses a second for a curtain call, it has all happened because a stage hand has simply worked his endless pull line with one hand. (( That's rigging de luxe — National Rigging. . . . Steel battens, strong enough to carry twice their required burden. . . . Non-lubricating roller bearing sheaves Steel
cable from batten to arbor, safe for a lifetime of service. . . . Each set so perfectly counterweighted that the scenery is silently, rapidly, raised or lowered with but one hand. Draw curtains on silent steel tracks respond with almost unbelievable precision to their automatic motor control, sturdy and fool-proof. . . . It's the kind of rigging that helps to put the show over — the kind that shares in the applause. (j[ The effective operation of National rigging is not, in any sense, limited to the million dollar house, National counterweight sets are well within the price range of the smaller theatre. The true economy of their long, laborsaving service, their precision of operation, can scarcely be estimated in dollars and cents. National rigging service is as thorough in its completeness as its products are outstanding in performance. (( National rigging experts are always ready to plan the right sets for your stage and to install them correctly, assuring an efficiency in operation that will lenda further touch of excellence to stage presentations.