The Cordova daily times., 1922-09-09
KODAK MACNATE
 MAKES CITY GIFT OF
 WONDERFUL THEATER

ROCHESTER,, N. Y., Sept. 9.-The University of Rochester shortly will come into possession of one of the finest theaters in the world, the gift of George Eastman, of the Eastman Kodak Company.
 Erected at a cost of S5,000000, To- cated in the heart of the business sec tion and under the same roof with the Eastman School of music it's donor and the college authorities plan to make it the curtural and musical cen ter of the community.
 In size the Eastman Theater is ex- celled by only two New York theaters the Hippodrome and the Capitol and in beauty, cost and completeness of equipment probably by no other theater in America or Europe. It is agnificently finished in art bronze, marble and rare woods, seats 3,400I people, without pillar or post to mar the view, and required the services of some 5000 men during the two years in which it has been under construc tion The entire outside frontage is protected by a marquise 367 feet in length, said to be the largest theater marquise in the world. It is designed after a rather free adaptation of the Italian renaissance.
 Not alone in it's physical aspects, however, is the theater unique.
 It's mission, as an integral part of the University of Rochester, to which it has been donated outright, with sufficient endowment to insure its continued operation, is proclaimed toI the world by the inscription over the main portal, which reads:
 "Dedicated to the Enrichment of Community Life"
 Because, in the opinion of it's donor and the university officials, motion pictures are the best medium for his trionic expression, the theater is pri- marily a motion picture palace, con- vertible into a grand opera house.
 It has specially constructed organ, one of the largest in the world, and nineteen smaller organs in sound proof rooms in the school of music af- ford the opportunity for instruction
 There are two promenades block in length each, between the school of music and the theater. They areI used by both institutions.
 In the upper galleries of the theaterI is an elaborate and costly display of art, ancient and modern. It was placed in the upper galleries for the same reason that the best seats in theI theater are the lowest priced-inI order that those most in need of it's cultural influences may be served firstI and best. Each work is accompanied by comprehensive description. |
 For the benefit of pupils whosei parents are not able to satisfy theirE musical cravings $35,00O worth of ml- sical instruments are provided by theI school of music to be loaned by those! who wish to study.
 Charles H. Goulding has been named managing director of the institution. He was long identified with the Keith and Proctor enterprises.
 Arthur Alexander, a student of Clark, Sabitini and Jean de Reszke and a member of the Eastman School of Music faculty, will be director of the sixty-two-piece symphonic orches- tra, and Victor Wagner, formerly con- ductor of the Criterion Theater, New York, has been engaged as associate conductor
 One of the most powerful radio broadcasting stations in the country has been installed in the institution and is already undergoing tests. It has been heard in virtually every state east of the Mississippi River. Through microphone connection with the theater and kilbourn Hall a per fectly equipped recital chamber in the school of music, concerts in both thea ter and school will be broadcasted. It is known as Station WHAM.