Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...theatre is excellently appointed in every way. The auditorium will seat comfortably three hundred and fifty people, and the stage is large enough to put on a comic opera in first class style. The proscenium arch is a large one, being 22 feet high by 26 feet wide. The stage and mechanical contrivances have been built, under the direction of Mr. E. E. Rose, by Parker and Malloney of the Hollis Street Theatre. Every detail in modern stage construction has been carefully attended...
...gridiron, fly-galleries, prompt box, and electrical devices of the modern theatre are complete. There are one hundred electric lights in the foot and border lines of the stage, and as many more on the chandeliers of the auditorium, all of which are operated from the big switchboard on the stage. The curtain and automatic fire sprinklers which protect the scenery will be put in this week. The total cost of the theatre and furnishings is about...
...theatre which is being added to the Pi Eta club house will be finished by the first of January, although it will not be used for a theatre until some time in the spring. The auditorium is intended to be used for meetings of graduates, for society meetings, and smoke talks...
...public entrance to the theatre is on Winthrop street and opens directly into the theatre, which seats three hundred and fifty people. A large door leads from the auditorium directly to the hall of the club house making access to the club cafe easy. The theatre is finished in a light buff, the walls having a rough sand coating. It is lighted by electricity...
...door in the wings leads to the club house and stairs descend to the dressing rooms below. A heater will warm the whole building by means of two large hot air shafts which go from the stage to the auditorium. The number of electric lights to be used is estimated at one hundred, all of which will be operated from the key-board on the stage...