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3328 (Equipment Service)
Motion Picture News
Interior of new Victoria theatre, Harrisburg, Pa.
Rebuild the New Victoria Without
Interrupting Shows
Harrisburg, Pa., Theatre Now Up to Minute in Appointments
The big, new Victoria theatre at 221223 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa., owned by the Wilmer and Vincent Theatre Company, who operate a big chain of motion picture and other theatres in Pennsylvania and other states, is remarkable not alone for its beauty, its modern appointments and convenient arrangements, but because its completion, just effected, represents a very unusual feat of construction work. This theatre is an entirely rebuilt combination of the old Victoria, which occupied half the site of the present structure, with an adjoining store room, and work of transforming these two buildings into one absolutely new theatre, embracing both the old sites, was accomplished without the necessity of omitting a single performance. The building literally was done over the heads
of the patrons and while the shows were going on.
The most difficult part of the work was the placing of the balcony, big steel trusses being inserted without interference with the film plays.
The problem of ventilation of the theatre has been solved by the placing of a mammoth Monsoon Cooling System on the roof. It is capable of blowing in 230,000 cubic feet of fresh air every minute, or nearly 14,000,000 cubic feet every hour. It was installed by the Monsoon Cooling System, 70 West 45th Street, New York City. Reiter Brothers & Vinicofif, 314 Chestnut Street, Harrisburg, supplied the wiring material and lighting fixtures. The lumber was provided by the Bogar Lumber Company, 3365 North 6th Street, Harrisburg, and the E. E.
Snyder Lumber Yards, i8th and Holly Streets, Harrisburg. The Potts ]\Ianufacturing Company, Mechanicsburg, Pa., installed the ornamental railings for thej stairs. All the attractive cement work ir the theatre was provided by Andrew Schmidt, 1624 North 6th Street, Harrisburg; the sheet metal work for the electrical signs was done by Samuel B. Weidman, 800 to 810 North Seventh StreetJ Harrisburg, and the plumbing and heating work was done by M. H. Baker & Co.,| 1330 Derr\ Street, the same city.
The theatre has 2,200 seats and the local manager for Wilmer and \'incent is C. Floyd Hopkins. The Stanley Company of America has a financial interest in the! theatre.
One of the most pleasing features of the| Mctoria theatre is the proscenium arci