The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-15
FIVE MILLIONS YEARLY 60
TO NEW YoRk'S THEATRES

Of the Shuberts and the attractions
will be offered by Walter Lawrence.
The opening attraction will be new
play by an American author, the name
| of which is not yet to be divulged and
that will be followed by series of
five other American plays. The the
atre will have seating capacity of
1900 and will cost something like
$4,000.
All the decorations are to be In old
rose. and the drop curtain. being
painted by Matt Morgan. will repre-
sent an oriental fete day, an actual
scene that the artist witnessed on a
visit to East India. The theatre will
attempt to defy all danger from fire
with its various new devices. some Of
which are entirely novel and are In
troduced in this building for the first
time. Instead of the usual asbestos
curtain there is to be curtain of
steel backed by sheets of petrified as
bestos. the curtain working automati-
cally by the burning or cutting OF a
rope as we'll as by the pressure of but
tons. In addition to the steel curtain
the opening between the stage and the
proscenium is to be protected by ala
automatic water curtain. The roof Of
the stage is equipped with new ventil-
attnS chimneys to carry the smoke
from the stage in case of fire and pre-
vent it from sweeping into the body
OF the house. There are numerous
other devices to shut OF all danger of
an Iroquois disaster.
The Manhattan opera house in West
Thirty-fourth street, near Eighth ave-
nue., is hurrying toward complete ion,
the opening night being announced
for Monday. Nov. 10. 1t will be one of
the red letter occasions of the season
when the new opera house greets its
first audience. 1t will be a beautiful
house: even in its present unfinished
state it gives some idea of how it will
look. 1t Is not built in the horseshoe
design Of the Metropolitan, but is
more like the newer playhouses, with
great width. but not so much depth
through the body OF the house. It is
to have a seating capacity of about
5000. with forty-two boxes. The style
OF the decorations and the furnishings
OF the house are to be of the Louis
Quatorze period, with all of the pro-
nounced splendor and brilliance of
that style. The walls are to be deco.
rated in cream and deep, rich cof-
fee color, with panels Of crimson, the
hangings OF the boxes to be in GRIM
son. A great deal of gold will be used
in the decorations to lend brilliance to
the house. The ceiling will be deco
rated with painting representing the
first opera, and is to be the work Of a
famous Russian artist.
The 0nora h0Nao 10 au,av frovn <ho
well-beaten path Of Broadway pleas
ure places. but the public will willing
~ so little out of its way to hear the
good things that the prospectus prom
Uses for the opera season Of twenty
weeks. The Hammerstein venture will
be watched with eager interest. many
predicting success, many failure.
Some one calls attention to the fact
that the Metropolitan was built In OPP
position to Col. Mapleson's Academy
of Music, which 1t soon overshadowed
completely.
Ground has recently been broken
for a new Belasco theatre In West
Forty-fourth street, between Broad
way and Sixth avenue. which is to be
open In the fall of 1907 under the
name Of the Stuyvesant. The plans of
the independent playhouse, as design
ed by George Keister. promise one oi
the most artistic theatres in New
York. 1t will bear the same stamp
of estheticism that does everything
MIR. Belasco has to do with, and It will
be used for his plays and players, and
for the productions of managers of
foreign artists and Independent man
ayers. The theatre will have a great
many devices in the way Of ventila-
ton and fire protection. and in every
may will be a model Of completeness.
AS to its decorations. Wilfred Buck
land. who is responsible for much of
the artistic effectiveness of the Belas-
co plays, is already at work on those
and has In prospect some beautiful
frieze work and decorative panels for
the new theatre.
Announcement has just been made
of another new theatre that will 20 up
in the neighborhood of the Lincoln
Square. which will be built by form
er associate of Charles Frohman, Ben
jamin Butler Davenport. The theatre
will be called the Davenport, and Is to
be situated in sixty-third street. just
east Of Broadway. According to pres
Shs PAouo Va Tic UullueI, IuS Iu6dII0
will be the home of a permanent stock
company. which will present standard
plays. The house will have seating
capacity Of about 1000 persons, and in
exterior will be built in accordance
with the style Of the old Drury Lane,
of London. The interior decorations
will be somewhat elaborate, a great
deal Of stone to be used, and the COL
ors to be the favorite combination OF
red and gold.
In the same block with the Daven.
port, on which work will begin short
ly. is to be the theatre which Charles
T. Barney and several other promi-
nent business men are backing. It Ia
to be on Central Park West, between
Sixty-second and Sixty-third, and II
will begin building some time during
the fall, detailed plans not having vel
been made public.
Land has been bought at the corner
Of Fifty-seventh and Broadway fol
still another theatre, which will add
to the cluster Of playhouses about Co.
| lumbus Circle.