Word: aprons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...light, and is using many ultra-modern staging devices. The Gordon Craige screen method is to be used, and brilliancy will be afforded by strong floods of light instead of by paint and tinsel. Much of the action of the piece will take place on the apron of the stage, thus eliminating long and tedious intermissions...
...hollow wooden structure which acts as a sounding box. Another innovation is a curved screen, in front of the footlights, which will throw the volume of sound to the last row of seats. To insure an unobstructed view of the singers by those on the side seats an apron has been extended nine feet out from the front of the stage and upon this most of the singing will take place. The scenery will be placed some distance in the rear of the stage proper. In this way a perspective may be obtained such as is not possible...
...Stadium or the equivalent of 6,000 seats. This distance is 175 feet in length and will be taken from the open end of the Stadium. The stage itself will be over 150 feet long with a depth of 75 feet, a proscenium opening of 100 feet, and an apron of 5 feet...
...office, there are two recitation rooms, one large lecture room, and the practice hall for the University Glee Club. Upstairs, together with several offices, is the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, the dimensions of which are approximately 60 by 54 feet, exclusive of the stage. Inclusive of the large apron, the stage dimensions are about 29 by 33 feet, and under the stage are kept sliding platforms which can be drawn out to increase this size for larger musical organizations. A drop at about mid-depth of the stage may be lowered when this extra space is not desired...
...second floor contains the large auditorium, the dimensions of which are approximately 60 feet by 54 feet exclusive of the stage. Inclusive of the large apron, the stage dimensions are about 29 feet by 33 feet, and under the stage floor are stored sliding platforms which can be drawn out to add even more space for the larger musical organizations. There is a drop at about mid-depth of the stage that can be let down when the extra space is not desired. In the north side of the stage is the space for the pipe organ...