The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management (1918)

Record Details:

Title:
The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management
Date:
1918
Publisher:
New York : Gotham press, inc.
Volume:
The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management
Leaf #:
00022
Language:
English
Collection:
Theatre and Vaudeville and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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as all snb-contractors who are awarded the va- rious contracts in connection with its building. In the first place, and upon this point all au- thorities seem to be agreed, the designing and planning of the theatre should be entrusted only to an architect who specializes in this branch of his profession. There is probably no other type of building which presents more difficult and complex demands upon the architect and build- er than does a theatre. Problems peculiar to it are frequent and puzzling, and can be grappled with successfully only by a man thoroughly ex- perienced in such work. The more theatres an architect has designed, the more desirable are his services. He should know the especial re- quirements for a vaudeville theatre, such as the necessity for planning the structure to facili- tate the handling of crowds whether one, two, three or more shows are given daily; the need for first-class motion-picture projection, and the adapting of the building to a possible fu- ture change of policy. It is not sufficient, therefore, that he be merely a good architect; it is essential that he be a theatrical architect, not theoretically, but actually, if the theatre is to be beautiful inside and out, and as nearly perfect as possible in detail. In the writer's opinion, if the builder is well 18