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Show The New Belasco Theater. It isn't the purpose of this little article to describe de-scribe in detail the prettiest theater in America, but just to give a glimpse of the interior as it appears ap-pears to the transcient the seats, the draperies, the tapestries, the general appointments, and the air of perfect elegance that pervades the cosy interior in-terior of the little palace. Mr. Belasco stated that he would remodel the Interior of the old Republic theater so as to make it as nearly as possible like a magnificent private home, and he carried his promise to the letter. The schemes in colors and designs and artistic effects have a charm that is not usually found in a public place of entertainment, and the absolute luxury of the house is most gratifying. As you enter the theater, the beauty of the antique woodwork, wood-work, in the lobby with the leather cushions at the ends, is the first object to arrest your attention. Then the Pompeiian effects in the Avails, and curtains and marble stairways, harmonizing har-monizing finally into the Empire in the inner auditorium, audi-torium, which is a dream of beauty. The tapestry is from the original Gobelin forest tree design, and the seats in silk tapestry of green harmonize with the coloring of the walls. In the back of each seat a golden bumble bee is embroidered, the "B" for Belasco. The "Rose du Barry" shade of red, copies of hangings owned by the great Napoleon drape the boxes, and the great stage curtains are in deep red velvet with D. B. in gold, upon each, with the Napoleonic garland, and in fact the symbols of the Empire ornament everything. The reception-room reception-room for the ladies is daintily beautiful and exquisite, ex-quisite, being a reproduction of the boudoir of Marie Antoinette, containing all the little luxuries dear to the feminine heart. Across is the room for the gentlemen, commonly com-monly called the smoking-room, but which is as sumptuous and luxurious in its oak and leather as the library of the millionaire. |
