Show I 4 HOW A DROP CURTAIN IS MADE 9 14 S r r C T j 5 Aft l T 1 4J r ¼ j t f 4 pT 4 rc I f 5 tY 4 r t I 4 I i I AWAY back In the vast recesses of the Salt Lake Theater stage Is a i little narrow stairway which leads upward to a landing and then there Is another little dark stairway which bring you out upon I platform high above the stage where there Is a clutter clut-ter of old canvasses and a halfccntury old smell of alnt and dust and old lumber Upon this platform a man tolls dally with paint arid brush upon a canvas no large that It must be raised and lowered e ered by moaiin of a Windlass With broad rapid Strokes he sketches bit of sky or n stone pillar or a madly dashing horse and gradually has sprung from the blank surface a picture pic-ture rich In color and spirited In treatment treat-ment of 1 scene familiar to readers of I t Action The artist Is Jnckron T Brcunlng I I I and his picture Tho Chariot Race i I from B6nHur Is to be the new drop curtain for the theater 1 will bo fin lahed and In place by 1 the first of the year The canvas upon which Mr Dreun lug Is working Is 32x28 feet and the method of making the picture Is Interesting In-teresting The artist first made a watercolor oneone hundredth of the size desired and divided this by pencil lines Into sauaren The larce canvas also was divided In 1 similar man ner and then each square was painted separately As the work progressed time painter was able to get the proper perspective by looking at the picture through reversed opera glasses Mr Breunlntr has had much experience expe-rience In scene painting and some of his work was seen at the Salt Palace Theater last summer When his present pres-ent labor Is completed he will probably commence on another curtain for the theater |