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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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FALSEWORK FOR CATHEDRAL SET IN EARTHBOUND tive of the work done is finished and actors and directors sit and view withregret or satisfaction the results of their endeavors. There are in additionhundreds of dressing rooms, costuming rooms, tailor shops, restaurants andpremises catering to the hundreds of people that participate in the making of thefilm. The stages are mostly of glass, although a later type is entirely enclosed;each is large enough for five or six interior sets and in one case a stage wasgiven over entirely to reproduce the interior of the cathedral here illustrated.About the properties are scattered sets showing street scenes, Venetian canalscenes, houses the world over, all in plaster, wood and canvas painted. The studios of these picture plants are in themselves small cities, quitehuman in all of their working parts and toiling by sun or lamp to mimic thelives of the people and their habits. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER yi The Planning of Theatres and Auditoriums
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T A Frank Criticism of Present Methods of Some Architects whoProfess to be Competent Designers By EDWIN H. FLAGG* HE recent impetus g-iven theatre and school auditorium andstage construction throughout the United States shows agreater proportionate advance than any other single buildingprogram, with a possible exception of the temporary rush ofmilitary housing at the outbreak of the world war. And evenin this war program there were two or more theatres projectedfor every encampment. The resultant crop turned out upon the country hun-dreds of auditoriums and stages that in most instances have^^^^proved sorry examples of modern play-house design. Why this is so need not be as pertinent a part of these sug-gestions as to advise remedies to correct the evils. What is most glar-ingly apparent to those who have for many years been careful studentsof the matter is the apparent failure of designers to treat the simple prob-lems in a manner that would accomplish most satisfactory results. A fe

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