On Building a Theatre

Length: 2h 15m
Chapters: 9
Language: English
Genre: Art

As people live in a house, Or work, day after day, in a store or factory or public building, they become used to inconveniences, bad arrangement, and lack of proper facilities. They complain for a time, perhaps, and then forget. And after a while, when the house has become home, or the large building has gathered tradition, a sort of admiration settles upon it. What is really plain ugly or wrong or bad appears quaint and full of "atmosphere." And is imitated. Style and tradition embalm the very features that make the building a bad building. To-day, by a concerted movement throughout the country, hundreds of community houses are being planned as war memorials. These buildings are designed t…