New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-12
WALLdCK'S NEW THEAIER

For the last seven years, the theaters have oeon
gradually moving up town, and the DESTRUCTION .'"
speedily TO be contaminated Of the building 10 iohg
known. and Nd dear to New.Yorkere - W ailscR g.
will leave no theaier in Broadway below Prince
street As the tide Of commerce has moved roei1
forward the Park Tbester the Chambers Street Thea
ter. the old Broadway Theater, AMI now Wallsck
Thester have, one by one. given way, and the SITES
have been appropriated for commercial ed'hoes But
New.York could no more spare Walack's Theater
than it could afford to see Broadway ploughed up and
sowed with ru,a-baga turnips, and % Mr.. WsllSck
gracefully yielded to the demand Of the public, and,
having consented to undertake the management Of a
new thsater httle time lost in selecting site. and
erecting thereon an edihce that shall be worthy of the
veteran managers fame. To give complete and
thorough description of this building is the object OF
this present article.
The ground selected 10 on the corner Of Fourth ave-
nue. and Thirteenth street, having night Of entrance
from Broadway through Gibsons new building. The
tbeaier Will thus have three entranoes-from broao.
way and from Thirteenth street for the public, and
having the stage door for the convenience Of the people
Of the theater on the Fourth avenue The walls OF ue
building were laid last September and the mason worA
was hurried on during the Fall and completed. AZ
coon q this part of the building wss concluded Oh
course the work went uniuerrupedly on IN the eo'o
weather could seriously obrtruct nothing but the laying
of the walls which, by the speed and energy oi TIE
builders. had been finished before the cold Set IN.
The roofing and after that, all the carpentry work oil
the in erOr has since proceeded without interruption
though we gsd to state tha no part OF the thor
ougbne Of the work has been sacrificed 10 deire Tor
q speedy completion. The whole has been well done,
and the walls and AL supporting beams and pillars are
Of such thickness that the moot nervousy anxp per-
son need not have the slightest fear on the .oore OF
safety Not ali the people that can ever BIT one tine
be crowded into this tbeser will be able 70 iur
pose an undue or dangerous strain on the structure,
unless all previous estimates Of the bearing strength Of
wood sod iron should prove to be fase-S mathe NAUTICAL
impossibty that lie cersn TO happen just ~ son rs 1t
can be demonstrated that two and TWO make nne-and
not before.
The broadway entrance TO the Dew tbeater Is
through the large building recently erected by Gibson,
the s,anedga. dealer for his business on the corner
OF Broadway and Thirteenth street. The doorway will
be Handsomely arcted snd decorated and will be Lighted
by four huge anps directly before outside the cnrbrtone
of the walk and also by prouson the long
lobby itself The width Of this hall Is ~ feet and lie
length so feet 1t from broadway to s intersec'
ton with the Thirteenth street entrance and Nj this
junction wide and beautiful lobby formed 70 fee IN
width and Il feet in hight, and about 4S feet long
This lobby and tho hats 10 be covered with thick
mating TO deaden the round OF the many Footsteps
and be decorated with fine fresoo paintings over
head and simple gold and white on the walls, In
harmony with the interior Of the hOase Coming from
Broadway the visitor passing through the ball aud
crossi the lobby, either proceeds straight forward
through three wide double doors To the parquet or
Turns to his left ard ascends single flight Of wide
stairs 10 the dress-circle.
TIE entrance 10 the upper circle il stairway mme-
dis,ey 10 the right Of the lobby, and Is nearest the
Thirteenth street door. All the rtaircases ue very
wide aud handsome, finished with oak, with black
walnut and oak bsnisiers.
FROM the main lobby, the entrance TO the parquet
IL easy. and all he surroundings very bands me-
the DOORS casings supporting pillars, etc. arc all eIe
esntly fnisbed and add much 10 the beasty Of the
general appearance /. IL but single step down frcm
the lobby the rarquet level inst I'D of being step
winding descent, M in the old tbeater aid the Ar
quss floor Is 70 nearly flush with the lobby floor, that
this one step s but four inches high In fact; all the
stairs are Of very easy ascent both in their general in
cline and in the night of eeeb individual step. From
the psrquet lobby, which completely round the
back Of the seats that level tie view OF the stage lie
cornraratv ly unobstruced, there being but few pillars
m the line Of sight interfere with perfect view OF
the stage One WIDE and handsome aisle from the door
to the orchestra divides the parquet into two equI
psIts There are on each side fourteen Lrg sofas
seats which are most admirably calculated for comfort;
each ritter IL allowed in the Creates crowd IL
inches Of width Of sitting The seais IL inches
Deep thus giving comfortable SUPPORT TO the body,
and doing away with the sensation Of icing percbed
on a very narrow shelf with which most OF Of any
theatrical experience are, nnhappy, familiar. The
fcre-aud.aft distance between the se.s IN feet 4
incbes, thus securing to the taiest mortals sniff
cheney of knee.room The parquot floor has
pitch" or downward incline tow ard the stage
of one inch to the foot, by which Arrangement
those in POS esson Of The seats can easily overlook
their more fortunate neghbors in tho front The pu-
quet will seat GOO pc Sons, without the employ ment
Of the boards tie siss which sre often employ
cd in other thentes but which VIII never. under any
circumstances, be nsed here.
There are DO proacenium boxes an omission which
adds very much the beauty Of the house, and has
given the architect and the decorative artists an oppor
tunity for making the beautiful prDscepum that
has ever been seen in tbeater in Now-York On tie
parunet level there four private boxes two on each
side arranged the lower boxes in Whlacks present
tbeater; IN the dresscrcle level there prvu1
boxes one on each side. These boxes all o. nearly
the same capacity and intended To seat ten per-
sons each in care of an anxious crowd and the
in each box are 20 admirably arranged that every
Of the decade sse perfectly the Stage and all that
there goes on
The visitor ascends from the lower lobby to the
dress circle level by turning 70 bis le and going the