Show SCHEME OF GREAT AUTY AND DISTINCTION orating Company of Seattle Responsible sib e m for Handsome Interior I By W. W H. H Bell Belly By y w w. w V H. H BELL I Z By y w w. w V H. H BELL I decorative scheme of ot Pan- Pan 1 lew theatre the period is isman roman toman man and early Italian 5 sane sance e. e The color motifs motif motU s i Du Barry gray to ton I n n. sharp relief the carved ts ts the background st styling ling r tones the whole high high- old Id d id floral loral enrichment are areU areu U In natural polychrome he hee the great cartouches the capitols us and other major enrich- enrich In dull Roman gold shed gold highlighting colors of or dull primates ground i Jome orne ome has for its features n 11 to the art glass panel an allegory of or the thed d the Muse on a field of ot with four ornamental c representing a conven- conven if jf the tragic mask I The Thet I t 1 with mosaics of ot gold encaustic 1 and walls of the rear II Jg done in tones of burnt sawn tawn gra gray with conven- conven 1 and and frieze decorations j panels anels anel in the auditorium one lone one in arabesques a reI re- re I r and design of the aras araJs ara- ara rEfs Js s by Raphael now hang- hang stine chapel In the he vati- vati ly y ceiling diamond grill It burnt orange the carved I eng in gray and gold eiling panels are in warm ornamentation roper proper and the mezzanine nade de are in the same sames is s the main auditorium Ih h 11 a ceiling panel of I gory or representing Music I ill 11 panels representing the I be e. e dor ceiling panels ar are The friezes and andI oJ I B are done in statuary act ct burnished gold and andry dry ry ry colors The walls of or I r are done in old Caen setin panels of mosaics Z in time weathered colors The outside lobby panels are donIn done don In m elaborate design of or mosaics with cornice and frieze in dull gold The ladies ladies' retiring room is is done in rose roseand roseand roseand and pearl gra gray and gold It is ornamented ornamented ornamented orna orna- in natural floral patterns The gentlemen's smoking room is done in various shades of leather browns brownsand brownsand brownsand and ornamented with designs sym sym- symbolical symbolical of My Lady Nicotine The decorations are by the Bell Bel Decorating company with headquarters in Seattle This firm has de designed designed designed de- de signed the decorations and has decorated decorated decorated deco deco- rated all of Mr lr Pantages Pantages' new theatres theatres theatres thea thea- tres and many of ot the old ones The opening of the Salt Lake Lale house wilmark wil will mark the eleventh new house they have decorated for Mr 11 Pantages in inthe inthe inthe the last six years and they have the contracts for the Memphis and Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas Cit City houses which are now nearing nearing nearing near- near ing completion It also marks the fortieth theatre this firm has decorated in the past ten years ranging all aU the way from fromI in the East Edmonton on the North Korth San Diego on the South I and all the cities up and down the I I west coast Seven years ears ago there appeared in inthe inthe inthe I the office of the Bell Ben Decorating company company company com com- pany a young Hollander 18 years of or age who asked for a job as decorative decorative decorative decora decora- tive painter Mr 11 Bell asked him for fora a sample of his work whereupon lu he he took from under his arm a roll ol or of small canvases and rolled them out outon outon outon on the floor His talent was instantly recognized and he was employed at once This boy has just terminated the Salt Lake job At 18 IS his work was naturally cruder and showed lack oJ or of perceptions but the talent was there He needed only experience and that he has had in abundance He has handled th the work and done personally all of the major decorative features of nineteen class A theatres in that time as well as a number of churches and other jobs including St. St James cathedral in Seattle Today at 25 this young oung man Anthony B. B Tony Heinsbergen is acknowledged to be easily the best decorative artist in inthe inthe the Western country I |