Architect and engineer . is theater the clever use of mirrors transforms the auditoriumfrieze into what is apparently a circular loggia of balconied boxes, a veryeffective scheme which gives an illusion of added space. The Chicago State Lake Theater isinteresting as showing that the soffitof a huge overhanging balcony can beso treated as to overcome a heavy,crami^ed effect. The huge commer-cial edifice is a simple straightforwardsolution of an oftice building. The Kansas City and St. Louis Or-nheums are examples of the ornate,lofty theater inteiior which uses gen-erally French detail along app
Architect and engineer . is theater the clever use of mirrors transforms the auditoriumfrieze into what is apparently a circular loggia of balconied boxes, a veryeffective scheme which gives an illusion of added space. The Chicago State Lake Theater isinteresting as showing that the soffitof a huge overhanging balcony can beso treated as to overcome a heavy,crami^ed effect. The huge commer-cial edifice is a simple straightforwardsolution of an oftice building. The Kansas City and St. Louis Or-nheums are examples of the ornate,lofty theater inteiior which uses gen-erally French detail along approvedParisian lines. The lobbies of all these theaters arequite successful. Those of the GoldenGate and the Hill Street are an ex-tremely good rendering of SpanishGothic. Mr. Lansburgh cleverly converted a lial)ility into an asset, bymaking the central column a motif for a fan vault ceiling. This is welladapted to terra cotta, as is also the St. Louis lobby, with its groinedand annular vaults and its shell-shape tr^^B^^^^5& i?t i MEZZANINE CITY ORPHLLM
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