Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1923)

694 Motion Picture N e iv s Tzvo views of the new Fairmont theatre. Fairmont, West Virginia, showing the attractively designed auditorium and Proscenium. Architect. Fred \V. Elliott ington avenue frontage of 125 feet. It will be fireproof throughout, rc-inforced concrete, steel, terra cotta, marble and brick being the structural materials. The foundation will rest i ii concrete piles driven to bedrock. It will be among the finest theatre struct u res in the Middle West. CrandalVs Tivoli Nearing Completion Crandall's new Tivoli theatre, at Fourteenth Street and Park Koad, Northwest, destined to be one of the handsomest and most commodious residential houses in the United States, is rapidly assuming definite form. While the excavation and concrete footings for the steel structure have been completed for a considerable period, the actual work of erecting the steel skeleton of the monumental edifice has been under way a comparatively short time. The steel framework, however, has now reached the stage where a specific idea of the size and importance of this Fourteenth Street development can easily be obtained by the casual passer-by. Crandall's new Ambassador theatre, at Eighteenth and Columbia Road, is entirely under roof and will antedate the Tivoli in opening by probably a month. It is expected that the Ambassador will be ready for formal dedication by the middle of August. — Knappen. TheatreBuilding in A ustralia A new era of theatre building, in progress in Australia for the last year, is expected to bring about greater prosperity for Australian exhibitors than they have known in the past. The Carroll interests — E. J. and Dan — are building splendid theatres in Brisbane and Sydney, while Melbourne will soon have a new Capitol theatre costing more than $2,000,000, which will undoubtedly be the finest motion picture house. It will have a seating capacity of 2,000 and the facilities for the presentation of high grade pictures will be the best. Another new theatre is going up in Sydney, and six smaller houses are being constructed in the suburban district. Melbourne has reThe remodelled Linwood theatre, Kansas City, which now incorporates physical charm to ported six suburban houses under construc the degree of attracting a good summer business tion. (Continued from preceding page) theatre when the house is built for the comfort of patrons — not with the view of saving as many dollars as possible in construction." The cooling system, although comparatively inexpensive, serves the purpose well. It consists of two large windmill type fans at the rear of the house, operated by five-horsepower motors, a circular hole being cut out of the rear wall, the breeze being blown up the side aisles. The seats, furnished by the American Seating Company, are of the best. An attractive lobby affords a dignified method of advertising coming productions and an exploitation manager— a title unheard of in the reign of the old Linwood theatre— more than earns his salary, in the opinion of Mr. Harding. The seating capacity of the house, despite the addition of the balcony, has not been increased, due to the fact that part of the space was consumed in constructing a large lobby and a manager's office, as well as rest rooms, but the dominant factor of it is that most of the seats usually are filled. Marcus Loew Building in St. Louis, Mo. A building permit has been issued for the erection of the $1.(1(10.(10(1 Marcus Loew State theatre. Kighth street and Washington avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Contract tor the structure were awarded during the past week, and construction will get under way immediately, according to Joseph L. Gale, personal representative of Marcus Loew, who came on to St. Louis to supervise the awarding of the contracts. Thomas W. Lamb, the architect, is also in St. Louis to get the structure under way. The Advance Wrecking Company, which has been demolishing the buildings on the theatre site, was given the contract for the excavating for the foundation. The Mississippi Valley Structural Steel Company will furnish the steel, while the Ben Hur Krection Company will put it up. The sub-contracts will be supervised by Gale. The new theatre will be three stories in height and have several stores on the Wash