PRECAUTIONS AT THE FRANCAIS.
The Rebuilt Theatre to Have Extraordinary Flame-Proof Features.
The new iron curtain of the Theatre Francais is a gigantic affair. Ifc neither rolls up nor folds together, but ascends in a solid sheet into the tipper regions, which have had to be heightened to make room for it. The ascent occupies a minute and a quarter. It appears, too, that the new drop scene, with its colonnade and busts', is not an ordinary rolling canvas, but is glued to the iron curtain.
The, other structural alterations at the Theatre Francais have involved a sacrifice of seating space to the value of over $75 a night. As the theatre is open every night in tho year, and generally filled to overflowing, the annual loss involved in these changes may be reckoned at something like $25,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 273, 19 November 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)
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