rect from office or shop, meeting their ladies in their seats, and in the first intermission will eat substantially in the foyer restaurant. Score books are common in the hands of the audience and woe to the inattentive auditor who talks to his neighbor during the rendition of an aria. All of which shows that the entertainment is taken more seriously than with us; the audience is more exacting.
The Ufa Palast am Zoo is probably the largest moving picture theater in Berlin. A reconstruction from a one time riding academy, the exterior is not noteworthy. Great foyers again prevail and the auditorium walls are completely covered with a woven fabric of a deep red color carrying a geometric pattern, hung like tapestry.
Berlin’s largest variety theater has the foyer, restaurant and wardrobe features found in other theaters with the restaurant accessible at all hours, making it necessary to show seat tickets at doors leading to the seats.
The Civic Opera of Greater Berlin is in Charlottenburg. It was erected in 1912-1913 with M. Seeling as the architect. Its seating capacity is 2300 with a width of stage measuring 245 feet and a back stage of 110 feet depth.
What was once known as Kroll s is now the reconstructed Krolloper. It stands off the Tiergarten opposite the Siegessaeule in Berlin. This is a recent reconstruction and Architect Kaufmann has achieved most interesting and successful results. Enforced economy with ingenuity has here produced a wall treatment in wood that is perfectly plain though animated through the pattern work in the joinery; accentuation of exits and articulation of the proscenium by means of simple tubelike vertical projections ending in frosted electric lamps stepping off at varying heights is a charming novelty; and acoustically this auditorium leaves nothing to be desired. This rebuilding in particular, it would seem, is a product of Count Keyserling’s German laboratory.
WALL DETAIL, KROLLOPER, BERLIN
HERR KAUFMANN, ARCHITECT