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The most striking feature of the Four-Star foyer is its high pile Wilton carpet in dubonnet crowded with stars of two shades of gold, and high-lighted with two shades of turquoise green. This decorative effect is duplicated on the walls of the stair hall, but the lobby walls themselves have reeded plater surfaces, in a modern Swedish design, alternated with flat surfaces, and a color scheme in which ivory contrasts with turquoise green, dubonnet and violet. The frieze along the top of the lobby walls, however, carries gold diamonds that reproduce the effect of the gold stars in the carpet. The foyer ceiling colors are lighter shades of the wall colors. Foyer lighting is provided by flush ceiling fixtures of silver finish and ground glass, assisted by floor standards with ornamental ground glass shades and by lumline over the door to the ticket booth, over all poster frames and in the glass counter of the concession booth. A spotlight recessed in the ceiling is concentrated on a large mirror located between the auditorium doors, in which feminine patrons can check their appearance as they enter. There is also a recessed mirror above an ornamental fountain at one end.
AUDITORIUM: The horizontal striping of the buff facade of the theatre is recalled in the ivory plaster panels of the auditorium walls, which are similarly striped with courses of Haydite brick in dubonnet. The stripes nearest the floor are dark in shade, but the color tone of the higher stripes becomes progressively lighter. Between the panels are pilasters of alternate vertical lines of light and dark dubonnet. The vertical striping of these pilasters spreads outward across the tops of the panels and constitutes a shallow decorative frieze between them and the ceiling. Where the side walls converge on the stage opening the panels give way entirely to the vertical striping of the pilasters, which in turn is replaced by two columns of curved Haydite block, these forming the sides of the stage opening. The valence and its side drapes are turquoise silk, with a diamond figure applique at the top of the drapes, and all along the width of the valence, recalling the diamond motive of the ceiling frieze in the lobby. The curtain, made of rayon and damask, contributes turquoise and ivory to the front-of-the-house color scheme. The ivory of the curtain reproduces the color to the ceiling, which is entirely of plaster, and without decorative treatment except for light dubonnet striping on the under sides of the air diffusers. The auditorium rear wall is rock wool, reinforced with mesh, mounted on furring and covered with monkscloth.
LIGHTING: Light is provided partly by reflection of the footlights from the curtain. Both white and colored bulbs are installed in the footlight trough. They are controlled by dimmers located in the projection room. Additional light is given by six side wall fixtures. These are tall and comparatively slender, and hence appropriately located in the vertical striping of the plasters. They are made of stainless steel and white ground glass. As in the case of the footlights, both white and colored bulbs are used, but the wall lights can be controlled, not alone from the projection room, but from the ticket box also.
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