Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1947)

Add about 5% of the total actual yardage required if the pattern or repeat is 18-inch, and about 8% if the pattern is ! 24 inches and over, in arriving at the exact amount of yards to be ordered. These ! percentages will be the allowances that must be used up in matching the pattern : when sewing the breadths together. FIGURING YARDAGE Theatre carpet is usually available in either % (27-inch) or 4/4 (36-inch) widths. The 27-inch is used most because it is easier to lay and match, and cheaper to patch. The 4/4 or 36 inch wide carpet is used very seldom except in special cases. Broadloom comes in standard widths of 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18 feet, by almost any length. In figuring yardage for broadloom carpet; multiply the length by the width in feet and divide by 9, which will give the answer in square yards. Keep in mind the standard widths of broadloom, as the actual floor area of the 1 room to be carpeted will not always give the exact yardage of carpet required. For example, if a room is 10 feet by 13 feet, the floor area would be 14.7 square yards, but the actual broadloom yardage required would be 17.4 square yards (if no seams are desired). In this example a 12x1 3-foot broadloom carpet would have to ordered, with 2 feet on one side wasted in laying. The amount of lining required, when the total net yardage of carpet is known, is figured by multiplying the carpet yardage by 3, then dividing the result by 4, which gives the square yards of lining. For wood nailing strips on top of a stair riser, }i x ^4-inch plywood serves well. When buried in concrete, the strip should have the sides beveled so that it will stay put in the concrete. For a better installation, two such strips should be fastened to the riser, one at the front and the other at the back. CARPETING BALCONIES Be very careful in carpeting the balcony that everything possible is done to eliminate tripping hazards. Actually, a light color is indicated here, if safety were the only consideration. Where stair carpeting is fastened to carpet in the balcony, the seam should be some distance from the nosing of the tread, for the wear is hardest there. It is foolhardy to try to save on the drilling of holes or driving of nails in balcony carpet laying. Insist on having all wrinkles or puckers, and any looseness, remedied as soon as they are discovered after the laying. Sponge-rubber and hair lining have been installed under carpet in some balcony aisles and stairs. Quarter-inch hair lining is laid FOREST RECTIFIERS The New and Highly Improved 6-Tube Rectifier SINGLE-TYPE 75-V-6 and TWIN TYPE 75-V-12. Embodying the advanced knowledge gained from building rectifiers for radar and other highly scientific projects where perfection of performance and reliability are of paramount importance. Designed for all theatres using Suprex or Simplified High Intensity Projection. Built-in remote control relays with provisions for operating spotlights. 40 to 75 amperes DC current, 3-phase rectification. Also: LD-60 and LD-30 Bulb Type Rectifiers, SUPER MCS Rectifiers, Rectifying Tubes, Sound Screens. FOREST ARC LAMPS The New Electronic Control Projection Lamp The superiority of the Forest ELECTRONIC CONTROL Arc lamp has become the talk of the industry! It features a completely new and faultless method of feeding positive and negative carbons by ELECTRONIC CONTROL, assuring arc conrol of precision accuracy, maintaining the exact focal point necessary for producing maximum light intensity at all times without constant watching and adjusting. No carbon feed motor — no gears — no clutches — no cams — no gadgets — no fast moving parts! Nothing to get out of order. LARGE LAMP, 14" reflector. 1 KILOWATT, 10'/4" reflector. LOW INTENSITY, 10l/4" reflector. FOREST MFG. CORP. CHANGEABLE SIGNS and 5 PLASTIC INSERTS Chrome Metal Covered $5.95 Extra Inserts, 60c INEXPENSIVE GOOD LOOKING PRACTICAL SEE IT AT YOUR DEALER Associated Ticket & Register Co., Inc. 346 W. 44 Street New York 18, N. Y. ALL STEEL Utility HAND TRUCK with RUBBER Wheels $10.90 $18.90 CROWN MOTION PICTURE SUPPLIES, INC. 346 W. 44th Street N. Y. 18, N. Y. The F & Y Building Service is the outstanding agency in Theatre Design and Construction in Ohio and surrounding territory. THE F & Y BUILDING SERVICE 328 East Town Street Columbus 15, Ohio "The Buildings We Build Build Our Business" At Your Service . . . All of the departmental editors of Better Theatres welcome letters from readers, either of comment or of inquiry concerning matters of theatre planning and physical operation. If the subject of an inquiry is one likely to have general interest, it may be dealt with in the proper department (without identification of the source of the inquiry should omission of the name be requested). Other inquiries will be answered by mail. Merely write to Service Department, Better Theatres, Rockefeller Center, New York 20, N. Y. BETTER THEATRES, APRIL 5, 1947 43