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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
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l.Ut)K. LOEWSTATE THEATER. SAN FRANCISCO 50 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER Concealed lights around the cornices or canopies of the main ceilings,or behind the beams of the proscenium arches, throw varying combina-tions of colors during special numbers. For full lighting these throwa flood of white light, in addition to the chandeliers. In the Hill street theater a blue moonlight glow is kept on thecove at outer edge of canopy, which gives ample light for finding seatsor exits, and does not interfere with pictures. A similar soft lightingunder the balcony comes from behind flat glass panels set in the ceiling,of pleasing shape and pattern. The stage lighting and wiring deserves a paper to itself. The greatswitchboards, with, instead of knife switches, large handles colored tomatch lights, pushing up and down or pulling out, control every pos-silile combination of lights, with ample space behind, screened oft, givingaccess to the wiring. With them one man can do miracles. Wonderful1^^ -t
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PLAN, HILL STREET THEATER. LOS ANGELESG. Albert Lanshury;h, Architect color effects are possible now with the 250-watt lamps which transformborders and foots into virtual flood lighting, and with the colored glassthai is replacing the fragile old gelatine screens. Spot lights in balconyrailing are controlled from this switcht)oard, but the large moving spotsare worked from the projection booth. The basement room, where wiring panels and meters are contained,is foolproof and fireproof, with every block and fuse easy of access andsafe for working purposes. These rooms are immaculate, as, indeed, allthe basement apartments are, with the edge on one particular housewhose manager was in the navv during the World Vvarâand you ought THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 51 to see his engine rooms! Walls, floor, machinery, all are shining withfresh paint and virtue. Those rooms are better than a sermon. Projection booths are very different now from the hot, stuffy,cramped cubby holes of early days. In

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