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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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New Hollywood Theatre, Los Angeles A. B. Rosenthal, Architect Gore Bros, Sole Lessors Stage and Orchestra, Rialto Theatre. New York examine the works in such places as the New York and other municipalPublic Libraries, to which everybody can easily obtain access, it is aston-ishing to note the quantity of substantial materials which have remainedundetected. Vital scientific rules for sight lines and stage construction that lendthemselves to every size and shape of auditorium and stage have beenperfected and used for a generation or more and they have since lain dor-mant for years while most architects nowadays struggle blindly andfinally work out and adopt something not nearly as good. The vital subject of perfect acoustics which, until recently, has beenheld to be either an elusive or accidental property at best, has at lastbeen conquered and is now a matter of knowledge duly arranged andsystematized through the genius of the late Prof. Wallace Sabin of HarvardUniversity. Next we have

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