Word: foyer
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...still rather hard to imagine a moving picture house with a foyer that is strikingly similar to the great vestibule in the Grand Opera House in Paris, For here are the great marble pillars, the elegant promenoirs, the imposing balconies, and only the huge double staircase is lacking. The hush that pervades this, sacred place, is something between that of Napoleon's Tomb and Westminster Abbey. Patrons tiptoe incessantly up and down the heavy rugs in the corridors, looking strangely lost. Usually they are. It requires no end of time to find the theatre itself. Easy enough to run into...
According to Mr. Sumner, no expense will be spared in making every part of the theatre as up-to-date and as excellent as possible. A large lobby at the end of the foyer is planned, to serve as a smoking and rest room, and a theatre organ of the highest excellence is being sought...
...flood had backed up even to the hotel. It had flung back the sandbag dikes, swept through the doors, put out the kitchen fires, was attacking the carpets of the foyer, had begun to drool into the dining-room...
...about his work. The ambassadorial host then quoted Barrie, asked: "Shall we join the ladies?" A feature of the evening was the excellent performance put up by Degroot's six-piece orchestra. Degroot is at present the greatest attraction of the Piccadilly Hotel where he plays in the foyer in the afternoon, in the dining room in the evening and in the ballroom at night. Declared the King: "I have never heard such a feast of music in my life"; the Queen, asked by Degroot if she would command him to play a '"number," replied...
...there was Alix, her daughter, a grave, dark child in her mid-teens. Alix spent half the year with her father's father, the remainder with Maman, under the terms of the divorce. Tradition, strongest in the outcast, dictated innocence for a jeune fille; ultimately a husband, un foyer. For jungle life outside society's pale, however free and beautiful, had its fierce dangers, its pain. A mother seeks to spare her daughter these-and Madame Vervier was a devoted mother...