Architect and engineer . nly a few moments to make a completechange of scene and having many advantages and few drawbacks. The management of the theatre in Wiesbaden, the Court, had theirorchestra arranged to be raised and lowered as desired on a hydrauliclift similar to that used in Tallys Broadway Theatre in Los Angeles, andof late incorporated in many recently built theatres. But in spite of these few adaptations of European stages, and theseonly in part, the great majority of American theatres have been merelycopies—shells, garishly ornate and unnecessarily inadequate. Robt. Grau in his Th
Architect and engineer . nly a few moments to make a completechange of scene and having many advantages and few drawbacks. The management of the theatre in Wiesbaden, the Court, had theirorchestra arranged to be raised and lowered as desired on a hydrauliclift similar to that used in Tallys Broadway Theatre in Los Angeles, andof late incorporated in many recently built theatres. But in spite of these few adaptations of European stages, and theseonly in part, the great majority of American theatres have been merelycopies—shells, garishly ornate and unnecessarily inadequate. Robt. Grau in his The Stage of the 20th Century, says: Europehas learned long ago that theatre and stage engineering is a professionacquired not from books but from practice. America does not understand it that way and intrusts its theatre de-signs to architects, who build theoretically, not practically. By the latterI mean they do not keep up to date as to requirements or opportunities,as they are not engaged in the productions of f:i rxsyrLT-^,^^:^ 0^ 3
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