AN ATMOSPHERIC THEATRE—The new Empire Theatre in Dunedin, Thomas A. O'Brien, proprietor, will contain many unique features in theatre design. A huge Eastern temple takes the place of the conventional stage. The entrance to the temple becomes the proscenium opening, allowing the fullest scope for a series cf electric circuits in varied colours. In the newest “atmospheric” theatres in America the side walls represent an open-air panorama, but so far they have not conceived any new type of stage and proscenium opening. The new Dunedin theatre may, therefore, be claimed as a completely new departure in theatre designing.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 1
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98AN ATMOSPHERIC THEATRE—The new Empire Theatre in Dunedin, Thomas A. O'Brien, proprietor, will contain many unique features in theatre design. A huge Eastern temple takes the place of the conventional stage. The entrance to the temple becomes the proscenium opening, allowing the fullest scope for a series cf electric circuits in varied colours. In the newest “atmospheric” theatres in America the side walls represent an open-air panorama, but so far they have not conceived any new type of stage and proscenium opening. The new Dunedin theatre may, therefore, be claimed as a completely new departure in theatre designing. Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 1
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