Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-23
OPERA HOUSE IS
TO RE REOPENED
PASADENA PLAYHOUSE WILL
BE IN LINE
Professor Lowe Is Reported to Have
Agreed to Make Needed Alter
atlons to Meet the Fire
Regulations
Pasadena Agency,
16jk East Colorado Street.
Telephone Main 152.


PASADENA, June 22.-Manager G..
d. Porter said this afternoon that the
Lowe opera house will reopen in the
fall. prepared to run through the COM
ing season with even brighter pros
poets than at the opening of the season
Just past. This means that Proprietor
Lowe has decided to alter the house to
comply strictly with all of the known
requirements of the city fire ordinance,
the infractlon of which during the last
winter season brought about the per-
emptory closing of the house by Fire
Chief Clifford full month before the
bookings of the winter had been eX-
hausted.
This will be good news to Crown City
theater goers, as well as to Pasaden-
ans generally who take a pardonable
pride in the handsome opera house
which for many day was real credit
to the community. Just what altera-
tions will needs be made in the build
ing before it can be reopened with the
seal of the city's approval upon it are
uncertain.
Chief Clifford states that he has not
made a full Investigation, never hav-
ing been asked so to do by the owner
or manager of the house. Probably
the most expensive matter will be an
asbestos curtain dividing the stage
from the body of the house.
If the wall on each side of the stage
opening is not already of brick con-
struction it must be made so to COM
ply with the fire regulations.
During the past season signs were
posted above outer doors in the gallery
stating that they were exits. Curiously
enough when these doors were opened
no fire escapes appeared but a sheer
fall of from ten to fifteen feet con-
fronted one. The humor of the situa-
ton would hardly appear to person
seeking safety in fight with the build
ing on fire behind him as it did to the
average person at other times.
Suitable fire escapes must be in
stalled at each of these so-called
exits. The downstairs aisles in the
building are broken up at irregular in
tervals by steps, affording convenient
places in the semi-darkness for trip
ping up hurrying people.
These, according to the regulations
must be done away with. Many other
changes must be made in the interests
of safety and they will cost Prof. Lowe
a pretty sum of money. But according
to Manager Porter the changes are to
be duly made and Pasadena given a
thoroughly safe and up-to-date thea
ter.
In this connection it is interesting to
note that during the summer steps will
be taken by the authorities to strictly
enforce every detail of the new fire
regulations all over the city.
Miss Mary Cadieux of North Vernon
avenue was painfully injured last even
ing in a collision with a bicycle on East
Colorado street.
Euclid avenue property owners will
have a meeting on Monday evening to
consider the proposed improvements
on that street. Many of them are OPP
posed to the oiling of the street and
desire macadam instead.
James T.. Belcher for number of
years a popular newspaper man in this
city, and latterly city editor of the
Pasadena Evening News, has resigned
that position. 1t is not known just what
Mr.. Belcher's plans are for the future.
Two lively young ostriches at the
Cawston farm engaged in a duel to
the death yesterday. supposedly over
the habit of one bird of flirting with
the sweetheart of the other. At any
rate they could not be separated until
one of the ostriches lay on the ground
with a broken leg, necessitating its
killing to put it out of its misery.
Hotel del Coronado better than ever.