Image: The theatre through its stage door (1919) (14578179690)

Description: Identifier: theatrethroughit00bela (find matches) Title: The theatre through its stage door Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Belasco, David, 1853-1931 De Foe, Louis Vincent, 1869-1922 Subjects: Theater Publisher: New York London : Harper & brothers Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Machine-shops in the Second Sub-cellar Under the Belasco Theatre This is the only playhouse in New York that has a machine-shopoperated by power. Here are made all the new lighting and mechanicaleffects used in David Belascos dramatic productions Text Appearing After Image: a •rHCO a«i—< V-i a a o d • !—I O I ft 3cr ^ a; i—i I<3 ! (^ tuO rt rt 03 ai-r PQH aj 8 °-S C3 m <D ^3 H IMPORTANT AIDS TO THE ACTORS ART producers who sent them to my shop. Butsuch secret tactics are unnecessary. Everyone is invited to come in and watch us if hewishes, because whatever devices I use in oneproduction will be changed and improved inthe next. We try never to stand still; ourmotto is always to keep moving ahead. It happens that time and money are oftenwasted in our underground workshop, fromwhich other theatrical managers get the benefit.I have spent as much as $5,000 in an effort toimitate certain delicate colorings of a sunset,and have ended by throwing aside the scenealtogether. When I was preparing The Girlof the Golden West I experimented an entiresummer to reproduce the hazy, shifting huesof the sun as it sinks below the Sierra NevadaMountains in California. It was a very beauti-ful sunset that we contriv Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The theatre through its stage door (1919) (14578179690)
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