The Kingston Whig-Standard from Kingston, Ontario, Canada • 11

THE KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD Tuesilay Xtigusf 26 194t Page II lly Drawing of New Biltmore Theatre I Splendid New Kingston Picture Theatre To Be Scene of Gala Event for Its First Night Most Attractive Building Modern Equipment Parkins Lot Provided At Biltmore Biltmore President $10000 Left In Kingston In Wages Finding space to park your automobile while attending the theatre for two hours or more has become' an Increasingly difficult problem in Kingston Realizing this fact the management of the new Blit-more Theatre has made arrange merits for free parking of patrons automobiles on the large lot on Garrett Street owned by the James Reid firm and partially occupied by their warehouse Tha lot will be marked by a sign electric lighted and parking spaces indicated so that 40 or 50 cars may be accommodated there comfortably The lot is less than one city block from the theatre entrance No parking fee or service charga of any kind will be made "This special lot should ease tha parking problem considerably" raid Biltmore officials "because in locating our new theatrical house we have followed the modern trend of taking the theatre out of the heart of the business district and placing it closer to the home Many persons will find it quite convenient to walk to the Biltmore Others will use the buses because all the routes except the Montreal Street pass our door For thn who wish to come in their own automobiles there is good parking on the adjoining streets Barrie Brock Division Queen and Garrett as well as in our new lot Local traffic restrictions prevent parking on Princess Street for a long enough time to see a full show" Normal parking Is not heavy In the evening on the streets in the Biltmore district so with the further assistance of the new lot it is hoped to be able to accommodate the care of all patrons without anyone having to walk more than a block or a block and a half at the most INDIAN AIRrLANES BOMBAY Aug 28 (CP) The first airplane ever built in India will be produced this year by a company which has American technical assistance The Government la helping the company to obtain materials from overseas BOMBED POFT GIVES MILLION SOUTHAMPTON Aug 28 (CP) A War Weapons Week conducted here realized more than £1020000 ($4500000) As much as the cost of building Kingston's newest theatre as could possibly be spent in Kingston was in the form of wages to Kingston craftsmen and laborers the owners Informed The Whig-Standard At least $10000 Is the estimated amount which found ita way Into the pockets of Kingston workmen and a still larger sum to the cof fers of local sub-contractors material yards and work-shops for materials and installations Among the Kingston firms which are identified with building the Biltmore are the following: The Kingston Roofing Insulat ing Co roofing Norman Borricfield sheet metal Eastern Ontario Tile Tcrrazzo Co tile and terrazzo Anglin Co Ltd millwork Dominion Re-inforcing Steel Co reinforced steel Lem mon Si Sons miscellaneous iron Henry Hope Sc Sons steel sash Conksville Co Ltd brick and tile Chown Limited hardware and builders' supplies Fuel Builders Supplies mason materials Freeman crushed stone and sand Alex Thornton plumbing and heating This list Is supplemented by the following additional equipment and supply firms: Canadian Theatre Chair Co chairs Dennis teel Corporation Ltd metal partitions Dominion Sound Equipments Ltd sound and projection and acoustic treatment Eaton Co Ltd carpets and drapes Holdcroft excavating Howden St Co hardware Geo Hannaford Sons plasterers Lepofsky electrician Toronto Electric Supply Co Ltd electric fixtures Macey-Neon Displays Ltd Neon lighting signs and marquee A Ormsby Co Ltd kalamein doors projection room shutters Peerless Stone Ltd stone Standard Steel Construction Co structural steel Steele's Automatic Stokers Ltd stoker Goodyear Tire St Rubber Co of Can Ltd rubber mat Air Conditioning Engineering Co air conditioning Canadian Plate Window Glass Ltd glasj and glazing Thomas Vaughan lathing Carrol Lund painting and decorating Army of Workmen It takes a large army of workmen to put up a modern building The total number cannot be known Take one exanqple: Projection and sound equipment While an installation crew of five are listed below as actually employed in setting up this equipment in the projection suite of the Biltmore Theatre doubtless scores perhaps hundreds of others were Biltmore elevation is a striking surfaces In contrasting colors for of ornamentation Elevation and ilect of Biltmore Theatres example of the treatment of large effect rather than by the application perspective by I Richmond arch This drawing was made before the actual construction of the new theatre was started It conveys only partially the handsome appearance of the now completed building From the ingenious revolving Saturn on the parapet to the black marble base at the sidewalk the new Illumination Biltmore Theatre Subtle But Effective Barnett Laxer senior partner of Laxer Investments Toronto who is president of the Biltmore Theatre chain and who will be in Kingston on Wednesday and participate in the opening ceremonies Simple But Rich Color Scheme In its decorative scheme the Biltmore has taken a page out of Nature's book The most beautiful effect! In art and in nature are achieved by simplicity and harmony The appeal in the decorative' scheme is derived from the fewness of the colors adopted Red blue and gold were used and repealed throughout The chairs carpets and drapes are in these colors as are also walls ceilings lighting troughs and finishing hardware The blue is of two shades a dark night sky blue and a turquoise blue The red is shrimp red and peach red The gold is bright gold and polished bronze These colors repeated over and over again are arresting and impressive because of their insistence They are modernistic in the extreme yet they are as old as ancient history A simple stencilling Is the only ornament in the decorative scheme The entire effect is rich and captivating same shrimp red and turquoise blue All lighting Is indirect in the lobby and foyer as well as in the auditorium where silhouetted bright bronze discs terminate the scrolls or wave designs on the side walls footlights proscenium lights and overhead lights as well as with a spot-light from the projection booth and from the flange of the ceiling beam just in front of the stage The management has equipped the stage with an elaborate lighting system as well as with a number of dressing rooms in order to prepare it for stage attractions should the public taste and preferencs for this type of entertainment become manifest ing for the auditorium This lighting arrangement is contrasted with the boldness of the large bronze discs surmounted by bronze reflectors on the auditorium walls The stage is equipped with employed in the fabrication of the myriad parts comprising this machinery The following Is a list of the crews totalling 173 craftsmen and laborers employed in erecting the Biltmore Theatre: Excavation 12 concrete 15 masonry 10 carpentry 14 structural steel 7 damp-proofing 2 roofing 6 sheetmetal 4 insulation 8 haydite slab roof 5: lathing 5 plastering 10 miscellaneous iron 3 acoustic treatment 2 kalamein doors 3 glass and glazing 4 tile 3 terraza 3 plumbing and heating 4 electric wiring 3 painting and decorating 9 air conditioning 5 metal 2 electric fixtures 3 millwork 8 Neon 3 stoker 2 marquee 4 chairs 6 carpets and drapes 5 projection and sound 5 TELEGRAPH CONSCIOUS CANBERRA Aug 28 Australia uses its telegraph system 188000 miles of wire more than ary ether country In the world Australians each average 24 telegrams a year The United States is next with 15 and the United Kingdom third with 13 The opening of Kingston' new rst motion picture theatre The Biltmore on Upper Princes Street will be held on Wednesday evening Aug 27 when Mayor A Stewart will officiate and prominent Kingstnnians and out-of-town guests will be present The new theatre ha attracted a good deal of attention during the course of it construction and thousands of Kingston and district people are anxious to view the Interior of the building Because of the large number of guests invited by the management for Wednesday evening only a portion of the 780 seats in the auditorium will ba available for the general public The doors will open at 8:30 pm and tickets will be sold as long as seats are available The opening ceremonies will get under way at 7 o'clock when a broadcast announcer at a portable microphone will begin a broadcast over CFIIC describing the crowd arriving for the opening and perhaps interviewing some of the Invited guests as they enter the theatre Shortly afterward the official reremonics will begin on the Biltmore stage and these too will he broadcast The new theatre possesses many Innovations such as a balcony where smoking will be allowed special seats equipped with earphones for those hard bf hearing new type of illumination the last wofd in sound and projection equipment and luxurious decorations and furnishings Pedestrians stop to loo at the new Biltmore Theatre and after they have passed they hesitate and stop to look again It Is hard to say why becuuse the building is devoid of ornamentation as such Yet the very simplicity of the structure is impressive The Arresting Elevation The front is built of stone a warm golden buff laid up in plain three-feet squares running from the black granite base at the sidewalk all the way up to the roof parapet Th buff Is interrupted only once by a contrasting color blue a deep purplish blue in a horizontal panel laid up in two-feet squares over the marquee Flue repeats itself on ihe facia over the front entrance doors in the form of blua laminated mirrors Buff and blue over large nrens are the two contrasting colors that hold the eye External fixture and features such as display boxes marquee Saturn-like revolving flasher on the roof are cleverly metged in the color scheme by treating them in the dominant buff color of the principal surface The only accents are the red reiling of the marquee over the front doors and the polished bronze semi-circular ticket booth brilliant spots which serve to pull together and pivot the large areas of buff and blue Here is art and architecture of the modern variety well expressed Colorful and gay but not gaudy or extravagant Arresting yet simple and modest The Rich Lobby Come inside the Biltmore Then-Ire New charms and innovations delight the eyes The lobby nr vestibule borders on the rich achieved again by the massing of materials rather than by studied ornamentation Walb avo of or-angry gold mirrors The wiling ii a circular trough for neon in the shape of an inverted gold umbrella The floor is a multi-colored rubber rug framed in thick brass strips Display box frames doors and ceilings are surfaced gold The Luxurious Foyer The doorman conducts you past the lobby doors into the foyer If the lobby seemed rich the foyer will be rated luxurious The ceiling of this room is a round mushroom with gold neon tucked away In its folds A round gold mirror surrounds the door to the ladies powder room The walls are turquoise blue or aqua marine blue as are he doors in this area which are upholstered in leatherette The tufting of the upholstering fa punctuated by polished bronze stud to match the hardware and other finishing metal which are done in shiny gold or polished bronze Accent In this decorating scheme are in shrimp red and chartreuse yellow Novel Auditorium The auditorium is on two levels main floor and balcony the latter designed for patrons wishing to smoke The ceiling of the auditorium is ultramarine blue rr midnight blue which continues down the side walls to a gold scroll or wave bordering a crescendo stripe of shrimp red cascading from the balcony to the stage proscenium Below this scroll the walls are in turquoise blue to a dado and from there down to the floor they are again the ultramarine color of ihe ceding The accents in the auditorum in the shape of cornice or dado arc in' bright gold and shrimp red The entire proscenium or stage end of the theatre is hung in drapery fabric a continuation of the main curtain which Is dene delightful composition of the i TO THE OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT OF THE BILTMORE THEATRE Unleu attention Is called to it the patron may not observe the almost complete absence of lighting fixtures as such in newest theatre Nearly all sources of light whether by neoa fluorescent tubes reflectors or Incandescent lamps are tucked away in coves troughs recesses and lighting boxes As In the decorating scheme the effect is pronounced but subtle The lobby ceiling in the form of an inverted umbrella done in gold leaf is Illuminated with blue neon to harmonize with the adjoining ceiling while the ceiling of the foyer In the form of a mushroom has gold neon tucked away in its folds The trough in the promenade carried out in blut and gold is illuminated with rose-colored neon Long horizontal boxes faced with opalescent glass inserted into the cornice in the auditorium provide house and emergency light- ELGIN 1312 and Best Wishes For Continued Success! the new BILTMORE THEATRE of Kingston Ont which opens to the public tomorrow Naturally we are proud to have been chosen to build newest and moat modern theatre edifice which we believe reflects great credit upon the enterprising men behind It and Is a distinct asset to the city as a whole Comfortable seating accommodation for patrons is assured in the new Biltmore through the installation of the latest design auditorium seats equipped with Marshall Mattress spring upholstery You will enjoy the entertainment in real COMFORT CANADIAN THEATRE CHAIR COMPANY SMITH SONS GENERAL CONTRACTORS of Quality 281 COLLING WOOD STREET KINGSTON ONT 277 VICTORIA STREET TORONTO.