The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-09-08
Grand OPENING
OF CA|RO'S new
TAEATfR MONDAY
PaIatial Playhouse viii Give Three
Inaugural Shows Beginning at
Seven O'Clock
COMPLETE In EVERY DETAIL
Character of Entertainment to be
Provided Patrons Will
be Varied
COMPLETE In EVERY DETAIL

Coincident with its completion
Kimmel's New Theater will give its
inaugural performance at Z O'Clock
tomorrow evening, and every after
noon and evening thereafter from
2:30 to $3.50 and ZOO to 1900
continuous performances being the
rule, no dull moments intervening
with complete change of program
each day.
This handsome and modern edi
fee has been in process of construc-
ticn for nearly seven months with
the exception of the high water
period. 1t has frequently been men
toned in the columns of the local
press in glowing terms. Often it
has appeared that the descriptions
were slightly extravagant but to
take a comprehensive view of the
structure in all its details the be-
holder and visitor will quickly OBJ
serve that scant justice has been
done in these descriptive references.
In every detail is evidenced the
intense thought that has been given
to the construction by the owner
Travis A, kimmel. Nothing seems
lacking to make it absolutely a
jewel and "a VISION of Theatrical
Perfection"
The details are all in perfect good
taste and harmony prevails in every
sense. The color scheme in the in
terror is of cream white and old
ivory. The wood work is of birch,
finished in light mahogany while the
Wainscotting, metal work of the
chairs and the linoleum match
throughout.
The system of indirect lighting
makes the auditorium like day en-
aiding one to read newspaper
easily The aisles arc wide and
graduate. while there are six broad
exits in front and rear all marked
with the regulation signs designat-
ing the purpose for which they are
intended.
There Is handsome and roomy
mezzanine balcony with capacity for
2S5 making total seating of $50.
In the rear of this is the operating
room large 10 gauge steel struc-
ture filled with the biggest and best
line OF motion projection machines
ever assembled in any theater. A
state inspector for the Underwriters
looking over the building Thursday
volunteered the information that
the equipment and booth were the
finest he had ever seen in any city.
The policy of the new theater will
not be confined to any one form of
entertainment will be varied, rang
ing from motion pictures to one act
dramas and musical comedies, the
stage being sufficiently ample to
handle easily any production.
The inaugural program will be
announced in these columns Monday
morning
Anticipating very large attend
ance on the opening evening, Man
ager Kimmel has decided to open
the box office Monday afternoon at
2:30 for the advance sale of tickets
without an increase in scale of ad-
mission. This will avoid the crush
usually involved in the desire to
purchase tickets when the box office
is opened only few minutes before
performance. An admirable
point is that the first performance
will begin promptly at 700 O'Clock
and no one will be admitted until
the close Of that performance. This
insures a vacant house at the con-
clusion of the initial exhibition as
eacy and every person in the theater
Will have seen an entire show and
make room for those waiting admis-
sion.
The performance will require
, about one hour and twenty minutes
each, SO those unable to gain admis.
sion to the first show can be sure of
the next at 500, the third at $40,
making three complete performances
tho opening evening. 'ast
In addition to the many attractive
features to be found in The Kimmel
is handsome, Kimball pipe organ
instal cd in concrete pit under the
stage with many handsome decorated
pipes arranged on cartouches on
either side of the proscenium arch.
This magnificent instrument will be
utilized in the rendering of classical
and semi-classicvl oyertures preced