Theatre Staff Used Their Heads At Fire
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DUXEDIA, i- 1> b. IS. Twenty-live minutes before the perfoi i. ,i i.-t- iu ihe Atute Theatre was due to .inish last night, a #pro,jectionist not :• t - i that smoke was issuing from Ihe wai! beside his are-light apparatus. With presenee; of miiid he elosed his lin pruoi shntter. eafried the boxes or ti 1 n into an adjoining eoirerete lireprooi' rooin and then raiig the inanuger to in forin him of the outbreak. Tlie manager inimediately informed the ire brigade and, gomg to the stage. asked patrons to leave, giving 110 reason toi the i eipiest. As tiie projeet ionLi hau -witrhed on the lights in Ihe mei.utiiiie, and most of ihe patrons were sutislied that the show had elosed for Ihe night tliey ealinly proeeeded to va'-ate the theatre. Some wlio were in Ihe innnediale vieinit.v oi' the projecl ion loom left in rather a iiurrv, but 'tliere was 11 > jianif. Xone of tlie pro.jeetion e(piipment wa spoiled and th(> lire eaused only sliglit daniage to tlie top of oue wall of the pro.ieetion room. A quantity of smoke rose into tlie workroonis of tlie -Marilyn Pori, sliop above. Tlie manager of the theatre, said last night that sereenings would eon tiiitie today as usual.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 February 1948, Page 5
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217Theatre Staff Used Their Heads At Fire Chronicle (Levin), 19 February 1948, Page 5
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