Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-31
Capital City's Beautiful Play
House to be Completed
October
Seating Capacity VIM Reach
q 1900 and Interior TO be
Work Of AIT
Perspective Of The Interior
Will be Placed in Local
Display Widow

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marck's beautiful playhouse, is pro
crossing at a god pace, and the gen.
eral contractors expect to finish VI
before the date named in the con
tract, October "a.
Architect Van Horn has received Il
sketch of the interior, made in colors,
| which shows the proposed beauty
when it is completed. The general
background is to ; be white, which
will require a great deal less light
than any other color. The decorations
are to be in h%eliotrope, French grey
and gold, and the carpets, %draperies.
portieres and valance will. be in har-
mony with the color scheme. Instead
of MURAL paintings there will be pan
els in heliOtrope. The whole interior
is cheerful, the decorations delicate
and exquisitely executed, making it
one of the most inviting play houses
in the northwest.
The Contracts.
Inasmuch as the public is quite
generally interested in the %expendi-
lures for the building and may desire
to know what the various contracts
amount to-, the Tribune produces a
list OF them with" amounts. and they
are assfOllOWs:
For building-Bismarck Con.
%struction company .$34.945.Nc
Heating, ventilating and
plumbing-Grambs & Peet
company 5000
Electric work-Walper q
Woodruff .............. 2.250.Op
ornamental plaster and dec
orations-Van Vie Thea
ter Equipment company. 2,550.OO
Total Of contracts for
building .,.... 45,352.OO
The orfa mental plastering and dec
orations of interior were not includ-
ed in the first contract, as both are
lines on which a few hundred dollars
may be spent or several thousand.
The committee has selected designs
which run the total cost of the build
ing 1852 above. the $45.000, the
amount the people voted bonds for,
but it believes it is justified in doing
so. as the interior decorations 9s
| shown by the perspective submitted
are certainly in keeping with the
handsome exterior. and they believe
it will be money we'll expended to
have an interior that will be a good
advertisement for the city, and n OF
which it's citizens may justly feel
proud.
Seating Capacity.
Many questions have been asked
regarding the seating capacity of the
auditorium and there seems to be
considerable. variance of figures.
hence a Tribune representative igur-
led it up from the plans, which makes
this announcement authentic. The
seats are distributed as follows:
Parquet ........ ....... :...., Do
Balcony ..'.:....... .....,'... 20
Gallery -. 294
Boxes OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ~
a 1926
There are several widee aisles,
where, in case of an exceptionally
heavy crowd, the seating capacity
m be raised to- 1900 without crowd
ing in the least. In Still another ex'
IRENE case, 300 may be. seated on the
stage. thereby accommodating LOO
people.
The perspective of the interior
which has been received, will be sent
to the decorators in the city, after
which it will be returned here and
placed in some prominent display
window for the inspection of the pub
lie.
As the building progresses the poo
pie are gradually gaining an idea OF
what the building is to be, but few
have any idea what the beauty of tile
interior is to be-. 1t will. indeed. be. a
work of art.