The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-06
NEW THEATER PLANS
Playhouse to Be Maintained For
Advancement of Art.
LUXURIOUS IN ITS FITTINGS

New York VIII Seat 2,31S-Fine
Quarters For Star Perforrers-Im-
rense Stage and Bar Open Ali Year
Round.
Complete plans for the New theater,
which is to be maintained for the adj
vancement of art and not for CONNER
ci2l 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-
waiting 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 lie pushed from
now on. and it is expected that the
New theater will be ready for the sea-
; son of 1909.
i Its founders hope that it will stand
In the same relation to dramatic and
musical art as do the principal thea
tiers of Europe. 1t is ulanned not only
| to foster and stimulate art by the pro-
duction of plays and light operas that
a school of musical and dramatic art.
The well to do men who stand be
hind the project have arranged that all
profits above a very small interest OF
the money invested shall be devotec
to the development of such a schoG,
the accumulation of an endowment
fund and other like purposes. Briefly,
-. A.
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
ment of such an idea. The stage and
auditorium will occupy but a 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 for
ist and similar accommodations.
The building will occupy site front
ing 200 feet Oh Central Park West. 1t
will run back on Sixty-second street
90 feet and 200 feet on Sixty-third
street. The exterior is to be of In
diana limestone The architecture will
follow the Italian renaissance. The
main building will have a high base
containing all the entrances and a
two story co!onnade. The foyer, ex
tending through the height of two sto-
ries. will be aceentuated by large
arches extending the full height of the
columns.
1t may be noted in passing that the
buffet viii 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 lie twenty-five 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-
BILE staircases, one leading to the boxes,
the other to the galleries.
The house will seat 2,31S people, GOO
in the orchestra pit, 800 In the boxes
and 1,41S in the two galleries. Tho
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 ellipttcal 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 lie under a
gallery The architects have tried to
make 1t possible for every person &C.
| 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, 6e
feet deep and 112 feet in the clear
| The depth below the stage will be
| thfrty-two feet The proscenium arch
is to be forty-lee feet wide and forty
feet high. Few theaters have a stage
| SO large.
| Accommodates for the stars will
| be luxurious oms for twenty-three
men and fifteen omen have been pro-
vided for 4 80 dressing rooms face
! On the street IT or Eve of the thir-
| teen elevate ne used to take the
chorus girls a. supers to and from
| the stage
The stag De big enough for
grand opera 7e Metropolitan stage
Is Go larger