The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-28
new OPERA HOUSE ON VIEW.
NEARING COMPLETION.
VIII Seat 800 Persons and Has SS Boxes
Red. Bun and Gold the Prevailing,
COlors In The Interior Decorations
Absolutely FIreprOOT. says the owner.

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Red. hun and Gold M Prevailing,
COiors In the Interior Decorations
Absolutely FtreprOOf. Says the owner.
Oscar Hammerstein yesterday afternoon
opened for inspection the tenth theatre
that he has built in New York. 10 In the
Manhattan Opera House, in Thirty-fourth
street west Of Eighth avenue, running
through to Thirty-ffth street. The facade
OF the house is English in design and mod
elled after the 'Haymarket and other noted
London theatres. There are six broad en-
frances on Thirty-fourth street.
The approach is through a foyer in the
style Of Louis XIV. The walls are of cream
oolored Yorkshire stone, with contrasting
columns OF breche violet, finished with
bronze ornaments. Bronze is the trim
ming OF the whole foyer. On either side
OF this entrance lobby are two Italian mar
BILE stsirosses leading to a foyer IN the SEC
ond floor. There are also elevators to this
floor. while the two upper balconies are
reached by two staircases similar in design
to those in the entrance lobby.
The new theatre will seat $500 persons.
which makes its capacity somew hat smaller
than that of the Metropolitan Opera House.
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balcony and forty in the prosoenium
arch. The boxes in the balcony ave no
retiring rooms. There are three balconies
in all. with boxes only in the first. ,
Above the proscenium boxes on either
side Of he stage is an ornare superstruo-
ture, which rises eighty feet above the
orchestra floor and Ia designed to form
a background for sculptured groups
representing Genius. Painting and Soulp-
ture. This scheme Of decoration reaches
a climax in the main ceiling, which Is one
hundred feet high, with a shallow dome,
elliptical in shape, forming the background
for a sculptured group of figures re-
presenting Orpheus and the nine muses..
The centre of the gold ellipse is a large
allegorical painting containing more than
forty figures.
The principal electrolier which hangs
from the ceiling il Is feet in diameter and
contains l 200 lamps. Twenty-four minor
electroliers supply the rest of the nlumina-
ton for the auditorium and ceiling. There
are 5000 other lamps in the auditorium.
Over the proscenium arch is a painting,
81 feet by 20, which represents Opera at the
foot Of the Goddess of Music. All the prin-
ciipal singers who have appeared in New
York within the last decade are shown in
the costumes Of their most popular parts.
The decoration of the interior, as well as
the color scheme, is in the style OF Louis
NV. Red is the prevailing color Of the
walls, and with this contrasts buff, ornately
decorated with gold. The proscenium
frame is a heavily carved mass Of gold.
The opening of the "proscenium arch 10
90 feet by SO and the stage measures 100
by Is.
MIR. Hammerstein says that the building
is absolutely ireproot and that the en-
frances are so arranged as to make it posi-
BILE to clear the theatre in a few minutes.
There is a smoking room in the basement,
with foyers and prOmenades on every floor.
Entrance by the stage door is allowed to
the box holders. The seats are unoom-
monty broad and comfortable, and are oov-
cred with red cloth, in the shade of the walls
and carpets. The says he will
certainly have the theatre open on Monday
night.