Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-28
NEW THEATER PLANS Playhouse to Be Maintained For
 Advancement of Art.
LUXURIOUS IN ITS FITTINGS.

Splendid Structure to Be Erected m New York Will Seat 2,318-Fine
 Quarters For Star Performers--lm-
 mense Stage and Bar Open All Year Round.
 Complete plans for the New theater, | which is to be maintained for the ad- vancement of art and not for conner cial gain" on the block in Central Park West between Sixty-second and Sixty-third streets, New York, were re- gently given out by the architects of the remarkable structure. The exca- vating work has been done, and the foundations of the theater have been laid up to the level of the street. Work on the building will be pushed from now on. and it is expected that the New theater will be ready for the sea son of 1909.
 l It's founders hope that it will stand in the same relation to dramatic and musical art as do the principal thea ters of Europe. It is planned not only to foster and stimulate art by the pro- duction of plays and light operas that are worth while, but also to maintain a school of musical and dramatic art.
 The well to do men who stand be- hind the project have arranged that all profits above very small interest on the money invested shall be devoted to the development of such a school. the accumulation of an endowment fund and other like purposes. Briefly, it is planned to make the New theater the nearest thing to national theater that can be obtained in the United States.
 The architects therefore have tried to plan fitting home for the develop mcnt of such an idea. The stage and auditorium will occupy but moder- ate portion of its plan. Ample pro- vision is made for foyer, grand stair case, retiring and cloak rooms, smok- ing room, entrances, roof garden, buff fet quarters for confectioner and flor ist and similar accommodations.
 The building will occupy site front ing 200 feet on Central Park West. It will run back on Sixty-second street 225 feet and POO feet on Sixty-third street The exterior is to be of h. diana limestone. The architecture will follow the Italian renaissance. The main building will have high base containing all the entrances and a two story colonnade. The foyer, ex- tending through the height of two sto- ries, will be accentuated by large arches extending the full height of the columns.
 It may be noted in passing that the buffet will extend all along the front and that it will be open all the year round, as will the roof garden, restau- rant and art instruction schools.
 There will be twenty-two entrances, the biggest at the two corners, and the others will be strung along Sixty second and Sixty-third streets. At the corners will be two monumental dou- ble staircases, one leading to the boxes. the other to the galleries.
 The house will seat 2,31S people, GOO in the orchestra pit, 300 in the boxes and 1,41s in the two galleries. The boxes are arranged in two tiers of twenty-four each, most of which have been subscribed for Nine stairways will lead from the boxes through the foyer. In the rear of the boxes will be a private hall, so that box occupants of one floor may visit other boxes on the same floor.
 The auditorium will be elliptical in form, the long axis of the ellipse be- ing parallel with the stage, so that the farthest box in the center of the house will be no farther from the stage than the last orchestra seat in the usual small theater.
 No orchestra seat will be under gallery. The architects have tried to make it possible for every person oc- cupying a seat to hear and see every thing. The acoustics will be as nearly perfect as possible.
 The stage is to be 100 feet wide, 6s feet deep and lI2 feet in the clear. The depth below the stage will be thirty-two feet. The proscenium arch is to be forty-five feet wide and forty feet high. Few theaters have a stage so large.
 Accommodations for the stars will be luxurious. Rooms for twenty-three men and fifteen women have been pro vided for. All the dressing rooms face on the street. Four or five of the thir- teen elevators will be used 10 take the chorus girls and supers to and from the stage.
 The stage will be biz enough for grand opera. The Metropolitan stage Ns