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Show TWO NEW PLAYHOUSES. The Theatre at Tacoma, Wash., and tha Lyceum at ew Loudon, Conn. Good theatres are springing up in many New England towns and cities iicb thirty yearn ago would hardly have tolerated them, my Tha New York Sun. Among tho finest of these new theatre I the Lyceum at New London, Coud. It baa a stage larger than that of any bnt the biggest metropolis THE JTBW LONDOB I.YCZTTW. . tan theatres. The depth is 40 feet, the width GO, and there is a lofty space above for th scenery, paint bridge and rigging. The accommodations ac-commodations connected with ft are of the moat improved sort, and will doubtless glad-don glad-don the hearts of traveling professional. Under the stage a large apartment has been fitted tip for the use of minstrel troupes exclusively, ex-clusively, so that burnt cork need not leavs it traces iu the other dressing rooms. The street front, although simple, is decidedly effective. ef-fective. The material used is Fisher's Wand brick, set off in excellent taste with terra cotta decorations. The largo arched doorways door-ways are bordered with ornamental terra cotta relief, which is also carried up the facade in a rich design ou pilasters and reappears reap-pears in the moldings of the windows. The interior surface of the walls is to be covered for the most part witli a material resembling re-sembling tapestry. But the effect of this will be relieved and varied by arabesque dosigut in raised platter work, rirhly tinted, which run along the front of the two galleries and of the eight private boxes. The plaster ornamentation or-namentation is also applied to the dome like roofs of tho upper boxes, to the proscenium arch, and to the whole ceiling over the parquet, par-quet, which Is illuminated by clusters of incandescent in-candescent lamps. Juit above tho proscenium is a high frieze divided Into arched panels, each of which contains a group of figures bronzed, against a painted ground. The pre-' vailing scheme of color will be rose and gold. Tho building has a frontage of 76 feet and a depth of 125. Another fine new theatre is that recently completed at Tacoma, Wash. It is situated at the corner of 8t. Helens and Ninth streets, with a f rontage of 174 feet on the former and 67 on the latter. The stage is 70 feet wide and 43 feet deep, the distance from it to tha rigging loft above being 00 foot. TACOMA TBKJ.TBC. In its interior furnishings tha theatre is elegant ele-gant and artistic, with a most harmonious blending of colors, producing soft and pleasing pleas-ing effects. It shows a display of artistic taste and a disregard of cost that is in keeping keep-ing with other features of the structure. A writer iu The West Shore, from which magazine the accompanying cut is copied, says: "With its splendid equipment and its seating capacity of 1,200 iu a city growing so rapidly and containing such a large proportion propor-tion of liberal and cultured peoplo, it will draw the finest histrionic talent in the United States, and will combine with Spokane Falls, Seattle and Portland, when they shall have completed similar structures, in forming a strong circuit for theatrical attractions." |