Show I Seating eating Arrangements 1 s I I signed for Patrons Comfort I By Frank Becker r r. 1 m mirage theatregoer and of t discerning Judgment an irresistible app appeal al in house comfortable ement and a a. smooth ush- ush that get him to his se seat t iff rg his temper They Im- Im faculties per his digestion and cause nUy to accept the fact U with the world Even self might happen to be for once he willu will u use e because he ho graciously to 10 management had done dono its lits ts power power to make him rule which the nd to be true after atter years many and all aU kinds of ot off t f strenuous effort to be omers In securing a a. seat most desired there comes conies the usher or the seat is sagging rogging on a hinge the riled ilL One gets petulant able ible He gets in a a. fight nd rid steps on his wife's toes U evidence that the world against him The man pt nt at all aU other times will willar ar r and call down high i Tess less ss that unspeakable able in- in being heaped upon him t have revenge of ot dir dir- Insults the l usher makes and him uncomfortable hes wrathfully forth to tox x the manager of ot the most soothing t probably be an enemy of ot oteYer never eYer go there himself himsel Ise TSO his friends friends' to stay fr t. t exhibition of ot myself like vice lice wice until I saw someone fen fan n unspeakable ass ands and s since Since nce if I have felt my- my posed upon I have goneI gone I 1 said nothing about it sed ged to myself to take it i next day A Alea Alea Alea lea that because I almost that with the dawning of ot the wrath had gone and grievance anyway I hers I intend to have l heart fc talk On them They posed upon so long and attentive so so and anxious Jl 11 I wish to lift up a a. voice voice e. e Sometimes they are ime one ume and make mistakes thousand years of ot Sun- Sun find a a. one who i 10 e owner of ot the theatre ike when he appointed d manager but the great is that ushers to ta o make good with the ui th you and with them them- them them- talk I had in mind d gen gen- i lent of seats and the theng theng I ng to them and how they tel ter eryou you got to them and I 1 2 felt to y you or did you OU I feel any more a theatre a theatre seat by Itself honse ouse or out in the ash nest dismal of ot innocuous a a. rusty red and middle middle There are some which I knew only a a. few sy iy ay lasting grudge to this n a ji deal out ant more misery I of thirst for panting an an- conditions conditions' n- n are right r human contrivance here is plenty of romance constituted theatre seat It can hold destinies of ot real red blooded blood blood- ed Individuals between its capacious arms ms It can sooth the lover or spurn the uie e unfit It make the can or mar portent portent portent por por- tent of some great industrial movement move move- ment Fent whose whoso captain it happens to hold holdin in n soothing embrace It can twist do domestic domestic domestic do- do Indifferences into blissful under under- standing It can lend glamour to the whole world of ot make-believe make where so many tire wend their way to get away for a a. brief briet hour I can recall no more delightful satisfaction satisfaction satis satis- faction than when I sank back into a a. I great big plushy chair in a a. theatre back East when I was a kid and waited to see Richard Mansfield in Cyrano de Bergerac I seldom had the money to get down front front and the event had been planned for for days My first contact contact contact con con- tact with that chair sent a a. thrill of ot I greatness through me Suddenly I became became became be be- I came one of those indolent rich persons persons persons per per- sons gathered there about me It was delicious The chairs I had I been used to were the little hard knotty knotty knotty knot knot- ty ones with the hard arms and the backs that hit Mt you in the middle of ot the spine They begin after the first act to take your mind off oft the main thing There was a glamour about It all an that thai made It an event for many months anc anca and anda a memory never to be forgotten Of Oi course after Mansfield began to strut around with his long nose and hi his swashbuckling sword I forgot that I Iwas Iwas Iwas was sitting anywhere I was riding on the wings of ot heaven but my soft cushion cushion cushion cush cush- ion chair was the chariot charlot All AU this has something to do with the seating arrangements at the new Pantages theatre in Salt Lake It seems a good way to introduce the fact that they will have 2200 of the softest newest individual chairs possible to get in modern theatre seat manufacture The old divan idea I has gone out of ot style There was too much separation from loved ones or I too much getting together with strange ones if it the tickets happened to come wrong The divan has brought about abou many a a. heartburn and divorce One-half One of ot the entire capacity of the house is on the first floor with nary a apost apost apost post in sight Eight hundred go Int into the balconies and in the boxes and loges The management calls them opera opera op op- op- op era chairs Certainly they are the best that Mr Pantages' Pantages architects and builders builders builders build build- ers could buy The utmost care was used in the very first part of the preliminary beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning which was a time they were about to start according to the best way I can say it it to lay the plans so the aisles would be the easiest way to the resting places for the patrons There Is much care devoted to this subject in every new theatre While talking to B B. Marcus the architect who designs all aU Pantages theatres a a. gentleman came in who hada had hada hadi a new seating arrangement which would double the capacity of ot the house We all aU listened attentively and the plan was under taken taken under advisement I have never heard of it since so I imagine the arrangement devised after years ol ot experience by and his associates associates ates prevails in the new new house house today and I dont don't mind sa saying ing that I think it should be good In making the arrangements far for the balconies all aU possible gross weights were figured for the supporting trusses and were then multiplied by five fi There is no possible chance for a breakdown short of a a. cataclysm and by special careful arrangement the house houe can be emptied in three and a a. half minutes It can be filled and emptied in seven minutes |