Identifier: theatrethroughit00bela (find matches)
Title: The theatre through its stage door
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Belasco, David, 1853-1931 De Foe, Louis Vincent, 1869-1922
Subjects: Theater
Publisher: New York  London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Machine-shops in the Second Sub-cellar Under the Belasco Theatre This is the only playhouse in New York that has a machine-shopoperated by power. Here are made all the new lighting and mechanicaleffects used in David Belascos dramatic productions
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