The Cairo bulletin., 1910-10-14
B|JOU IMPROVEMENTS
More Lights and Decorations, "
creased Seating Capacity-Bet-
ter Picture Machinery.

Travis A Klmmel manager Of
tbe Riioa putting iuto enec plans
Of altering and remodelling his popu-
lar picture palace.
The exterior and lobby is being re-
painted and papered, while upon the
side walls have peen placed a
pressed steel wainscoting surrounded
by rich panel in RICH art wrich VIII
he embejl shed in high ligbts OF white
enamel and eod Tile wooden liooF
covered with linoleuth VIII be taken
up and write marbelized with red
border put down in its, place, the
exterior is to be brilliantly illum n
atel by $50 ten-watt Tungsten lamps
m equivalent to 1000 two-candle
power carbon filament lamps.
In the mechanical department in
addition to the underwriters APPROX
ed Chicago stage lighting, spot and
food light. has been installed 1911
model Powers Cameragraph No. 6,
moving picture machine OF the future
This machine is not only the cost
lest, but the finest and best machine
n the world, embodying as 1t does
The triumph of ten years practical
and theoretical eXper ence, 1t thor
ouehly eliminates that tiickety-flics
and jumpety-jump feature, disagree
able in the extreme, so prominent in
all other machines. On account o.
Its many automatic safety appliances
: 1t IS the olny machine permitted 10
be used in New York City by the
boards of underwriters and fire and
water committees. 1t cost S325,00.
In connection with the machine
there has been installed a General
Electric Mercury Arc Rectitier, an
apparatus transforming alternating
into direct current, thus obtaining
light, strongest and best for projec
| ton purposes.
A Radio screen. the elimination q
| four years experience by NJ. J. Farm
baker, has been placed in the thea
ire With Radio screen motion
photography is so sharp and cleal
that the beholders seem to be look
ling out of window into the glaC
| sunshine, compared to which the or
binary white-paintei curtain look
like common scenery without deptl
or perspective. Mr. Farnbaker witt
his Radio screen has certainly eli
mated three OF the Objectionable fea
lures to the ordinary picture show
lighting up the auditorium by the re
Election OF soft light and the abo'
fishing of the tired eyes and nervous
headaches to which rlany patrons o
1.-THE picture theatres were subject a.
Ia result of constantly trying to lis
Germ am shadowy pictures laste,
on the usual screen.
The body of the house is also Il
iumined without detriment TO the pic
ture, the lighting scheme doing awa'
entirely with dark aisles AMI cor
liners. 1t is a marked improvement
over colored lamps bracketed or sus
lpended on side walls which do no.
light up the desired portions Of {
Theatre and detract from the effect
Iiveness OF the picture on th'
screen
Manager Kimn,cl leaves Sunday fo
Chicago where he will purchase
Baker not water plant to heat the
Bijou. 1t is system that requires
no over head piping or a pit in which
TO place the furnace. The Baker 81 go
tenn has received a severe test OF
railroad ears before steam was con
veyed 10 the coaches from the en
gines, thus demonstrating its cfdc
liency.
Next spring Manager Kiumel cor
templates extending the Biiou % fee
in the rear and the erection of {
stage IA feet in depth. He will, i
vaudeville proves a success in C&irc
VI Nluttl, ANIMATE HiS thtftiN "it'
enc in + aducah and put on two act:
/ Of first class vaudeville when vii
with two reels of moving pictures AM
one Illustrated song, furnish patrons
with ore hour OF amusement for five
cents. The additional space secured
| by the extension at tae rear of the
build ne will give the Biiou seating
capacity OF 1872, it being the inten
ton to give two shows in the after
noon and three in the evening
! While in Chicago Mr.. Kimmel will
confer with the Western Managers
Vaudeville Association relative tc
booking the Two houses on t&c split
Week plan