. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. theatrical enter-tainments. The new theatre was located at the corner ofFederal and Franklin Streets and with itsopening on February 3, 1794, the dramatichistory of Boston may be properly said to havebegun. It was called the Boston Theatre andwas under the management of Charles StuartPowell and Baker. It had been erected from theplans of Charles Bulfinch, then a young man, anda contemporary thus describes it: * It was one hundred and forty feet long,sixty-two feet wide, forty feet high; a lofty andspacious
. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. theatrical enter-tainments. The new theatre was located at the corner ofFederal and Franklin Streets and with itsopening on February 3, 1794, the dramatichistory of Boston may be properly said to havebegun. It was called the Boston Theatre andwas under the management of Charles StuartPowell and Baker. It had been erected from theplans of Charles Bulfinch, then a young man, anda contemporary thus describes it: * It was one hundred and forty feet long,sixty-two feet wide, forty feet high; a lofty andspacious edifice built of brick, with stone facings,iron posts and pillars. The entrances to thedifferent parts of the house were distinct. Inthe front fhere was a projecting arcade which 430 OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS enabled carriages to land company under alighting at the main entrance, theypassed through an elegant saloon to the stair-cases leading to the back of the boxes. The pitand gallery had separate entrances on the sides. The interior was circular in form, the ceiling. THE BOSTON THEATRE ON FEDERAL STREET composed of elliptical arches resting on Corin-thian pillars. There were two rows of boxes,the second suspended by invisible means. Thestage opening was thirty-one feet wide, orna-mented on either side by two columns, betweenwhich was a stage door opening on a projectingiron balcony. Above the columns a cornice anda balustrade were carried over the stage opening; OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 431 above these was painted a flow of crimsondrapery and the arms of the United States andthe commonwealtlI blended with emblems tragicand comic. A ribbon depending from the armsbore the motto, All the worlds a stage. The boxes were hung with crimson silk,and their balustrades gilded; the walls weretinted azure, and the columns and fronts of theboxes straw and lilac. At the end of the buildingwas a noble and elegant dancing pavilion, richlyornamented with Corinthian columns and pilas-t
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