UNDERGROUND THEATRE
MANY NOVEL FEATURES. Beneath the broad platform of the Palais de Chaillot, providing one of the most magnificent views of Paris, an underground theatre has been inau ■ gurated which is the largest of its kind in the world. Moveable walls, a single gallery, absence of protruding ornament, characterise the building, which has a seating capacity for just under 3.000 spectators. The architects have built it for a triple purpose, to serve as theatre, cinema, and orchestra hall. It has an organ weighing 75 tons which by pushing a button can be made to emerge from a recess at the back of the stage and advance to the distance required. The stage itself measures 131 feet wide, 42 feet deep, and 65 feet high. A novelty is that for concerts the conductor can manoeuvre shutters in the walls, to increase or lessen sonority. pust as a pianist can operate loud and soft pedals of his instrument. When the theatre is being used as a concert hall or cinema, the flooring is raised and a flight of steps takes the place of the orchestra pit.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 9
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185UNDERGROUND THEATRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 9
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