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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS
If the architect had followed the plan shown in cut No. 9: "E" auditorium long and narrow, "F" space for stores on busy Washington Street,
SCREEN, "WASHINGTON THEATRE
"G" ticket booth and lobby, he would have made an auditorium -better adapted for a motion picture show, and would have gained much valuable space for stores. The stores would have yielded more rent than the second floor, which floor could have been used to give more ceiling height to the auditorium, provide a balcony, office and storerooms for the theatre.
While the Washington is not a bad theatre, it cannot be called the finest and best equipped of the United States, as smaller towns can show far superior motion picture theatres.
Cut No. 10 shows the arrangement of the curtain at the Pleasant Theatre, of Worcester, Mass.
As I said in my letter, "On the Road," Mr. E. W. Lynch is a gentleman who fully understands the exhibiting game, who studies every device and always tries to improve, so as to increase the beauty of the picture and insure more comfort to the patrons.
Mr. Lynch is a strong believer in the "Mirror Screen" as the best cur
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(10) CURTAIN, PLEASANT THEATRE
tain to bring out all the details and give a depth to the picture. In addition, Mr. Lynch claims that the very best screen will prove a failure if it is not surrounded properly.
Mr. Lynch knows that unless the screen is set back on the stage, the picture is too close to the front seats to be enjoyed by the patrons. Instead of having the wings of the stage fitted up with regular scenery, as is too often the case, Mr. Lynch draped the whole stage with heavy dark cur
tains, and by so doing, formed not only a very effective shadow box, but made it very pleasing to the eyes of the audience. The mirror screen is incased in a beautiful, handsomelycarved frame, painted in a dull black, with just enough old gold to relieve the monotony.
A projection under such conditions is bound to be the very best and enhance the beauty of the picture several-fold.
This arrangement does not only
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(12) AUDITORIUM, PLEASANT THEATRE