Boxoffice-November.24.1951

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FRAME YOUR DOORWAY
You Can Add a Lot of Class
to an Exit by Trimming the
Doors With Smart Molding
The designers of the Garmar Theatre, Montebello, Calif.,
adopted the popular shadow-box treatment in framing this
doorway. This styling has been used frequently for the smartly
styled display case, but its adaptation as a molding with which
to frame an entranceway is a somewhat recent innovation for
theatres. A fresh touch has been added by placing potted
plants at each side of the doorway, an inexpensive but effective
way of adding nature's beauties to theatre decor.
THEME .
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and VARIATIONS
Here ore three treatments of a basic
styling, in which a pair of doors is framed
by wide picture-frame type moulding. The
simple treatment, at the left, is in the Fox
Theatre in Fort Madison, Iowa. This same
general styling is followed for the two
doorways in the lower pictures, not only
for framing the doors themselves but also
for the glass squares in the doors. Lower
left shows how this motif was carried
through at the Paramount Theatre,
Miami, and the lower right at the Fox
Theare in Winfield, Kos.
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