DOI Heft:
No. 188 (October, 1912)
DOI Artikel:The little theatre
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43450#0417
The Little Theatre
Robt. W. Tebbs, Photographer
AUDITORIUM HARRY CREIGHTON INGALLS AND F. BURRALL
THE LITTLE THEATRE HOFFMAN, JR., ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS
boxes and orchestra, balcony and gallery. Two
hundred and ninety-nine people may be accom-
modated, and this bringing of the audience
and actors into close contact emphasizes those
features aspired to by Mr. Winthrop Ames, the
founder, inasmuch as the general effect is that of
an entertainment in a large drawing-room.
The stage equipment calls for special mention,
owing to its almost unique instalment of a revolv-
ing stage. This permits of the permanent setting
of the various scenes, thus saving much time and
labor and rendering possible more elaborate stag-
ing than could otherwise be produced.
The Little Theatre is deserving of all the praise
that has been bestowed upon it, not only for its
perfect adaptation to the purposes for which it
was erected, but also as being a striking example
of the new order of things in theatre design. It
may be safely predicted that its influence will be
for good, and that the spectacular type of theatre,
at one time so common in this country, may be
replaced by this newer form of architecture.
Mr. Martin Birnbaum, of the Berlin Photo-
graphic Company, has returned after a summer
spent principally in the Scandinavian Peninsula,
and is brimming over with plans for a series of
exhibitions during the coming season, which will
eclipse even his achievements of last year along
these lines. All of the exhibitions will be distinct
novelties, and if there is any one characteristic
which binds them together, it will be the fact that
for the most part they are representative of con-
temporary German graphic art, a phase which is
little known in America. Among the first artists
whose work will appear at these galleries this fall
is Marcus Behmer, a native of Weimar, who now
resides in Florence. He is a brilliant etcher, de-
signer of book plates, and a decorator of the books
of the famous Insel Verlag. He is said to be a
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Robt. W. Tebbs, Photographer
AUDITORIUM HARRY CREIGHTON INGALLS AND F. BURRALL
THE LITTLE THEATRE HOFFMAN, JR., ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS
boxes and orchestra, balcony and gallery. Two
hundred and ninety-nine people may be accom-
modated, and this bringing of the audience
and actors into close contact emphasizes those
features aspired to by Mr. Winthrop Ames, the
founder, inasmuch as the general effect is that of
an entertainment in a large drawing-room.
The stage equipment calls for special mention,
owing to its almost unique instalment of a revolv-
ing stage. This permits of the permanent setting
of the various scenes, thus saving much time and
labor and rendering possible more elaborate stag-
ing than could otherwise be produced.
The Little Theatre is deserving of all the praise
that has been bestowed upon it, not only for its
perfect adaptation to the purposes for which it
was erected, but also as being a striking example
of the new order of things in theatre design. It
may be safely predicted that its influence will be
for good, and that the spectacular type of theatre,
at one time so common in this country, may be
replaced by this newer form of architecture.
Mr. Martin Birnbaum, of the Berlin Photo-
graphic Company, has returned after a summer
spent principally in the Scandinavian Peninsula,
and is brimming over with plans for a series of
exhibitions during the coming season, which will
eclipse even his achievements of last year along
these lines. All of the exhibitions will be distinct
novelties, and if there is any one characteristic
which binds them together, it will be the fact that
for the most part they are representative of con-
temporary German graphic art, a phase which is
little known in America. Among the first artists
whose work will appear at these galleries this fall
is Marcus Behmer, a native of Weimar, who now
resides in Florence. He is a brilliant etcher, de-
signer of book plates, and a decorator of the books
of the famous Insel Verlag. He is said to be a
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