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Detail view of the entrance area of the University theatre.
{Continued from page 15, column 1) Harley remains a campus legend. He was Ohio State's first All-America football player. The school's high position in intercollegiate athletics began with him. Academy Theatres, owners and operators of the University, and headed by Leo Yassenoff, himself a graduate of Ohio State, have dedicated the theatre to "Chic" Harley, and his career, with its campus background, provides the theme of its architecture and interior decoration.
The opening of the theatre was made the occasion for officially launching the "Chic" Harley Fund campaign to raise $300,000 for the establishment of athletic scholarships. It was announced only as a dedication ceremony, without reference to the screen program. Present were Gov. Thomas J. Herbert of Ohio, the mayor of Columbus, Coach Wesley Fesler and other leading figures of Ohio State's athletic administration and football history; and also the parents, the wife, and a sister of Harley.
The dedication began with the unveiling of a sculptured figure of the football hero executed in the terra cotta with which the front is faced. It continued on the stage of the theatre, where Mr. Yassenoff, who was a team-mate of Harley's, made the dedicatory speech. Mr. Yassenoff, who also is head of the company which designed and built the University, the F & Y Building Service of Columbus, is a member of the scholarship fund committee.
The University theatre has thus been associated with a personality and a project dear to the officials as well as the student body of the school which characterizes its drawing area. What might have been resented as simple commercial opportunism has been accepted as an expression of the pride and spirit of the university.
Above, section of the lobby; below, the foyer-standee area.
B The entrance doors of the University are of solid birch, with cast aluminum push bars. Above them and the box-office extends a panel by Sioux Metal Products of fluted aluminum, and all framing for entrance area construction is by the same company's "Nulock" method employing aluminum. The ceiling (inside marquee soffit) is stainless steel . . . Recessed in the terrazzo floor of the lobby are scarlet mats. Walls and ceiling are plaster, the walls in burgundy, the ceiling in gray. Illumination is by white neon in escalloped ceiling coves on both sides. Opposite the wall picture is a built-in refreshment bar ... At one end of the foyer-standee space is a mural picturing "Chic" Harley and scenes representing his career. Carpeting is a Karagheusian Wilton in richly flowered pattern of maroon and gray tones. Lighting here is by lensed downlights and coved neon. The standee rail is faced in plaster and capped in simulated leather. The upper panel of the rear wall, and the wainscot are plaster painted burgundy, and the ceiling is gray.
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BETTER THEATRES, MAY 31, 1947