Outdoor Theaters, 1917: The Design, Construction and Use of Open-Air Auditoriums (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The stage is tangent to the circular Open orches tra about which the tiers are disposed, and stands five feet and a half above it. It is a hundred and fifty feet in length, twenty-eight feet deep, and backed by a massive wall forty-two feet in height. This noble wall, enriched with sixteen columns and with stylobate and entablature in full Doric de tail, represents a palace or temple front. It is pierced by a great central doorway, flanked by smaller openings, and with a portal as well in each of the return walls. The theater is built of con crete, the stage wall being finished by hand in Port land cement.

The theater has proved of a great practical use fulness as a place of assemblage for the University.

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