HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1914 | 
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upon them long shadows will fall “up 
stage” sometimes with grotesque effect. 
Cross lights trained, one from either side 
from behind a mass of shrubbery, will 
overcome this; or arc lamps suspended 
above, where there are overhanging 
branches to support and conceal them. 
It is well to still further obscure these by 
heavy, dark cloth hung before and over 
them, that no glimmer of light may 
shine through where no illumination is 
wanted, thus diminishing the effect. 
Calciums and arc lights, however, are 
hardly to be considered as among the 
possibilities of amateur manipulation, and 
very often electricity will not be avail¬ 
able in any form. So the old-time stand¬ 
by—kerosene—must serve. And very 
well, indeed, it will, providing it is given 
a fair opportunity. Many lamps of large 
capacity, reinforced by reflectors, will be 
needed, and the positions of these must 
be carefully tested and worked out to 
insure the elimination of shadows. Using 
them at two levels is advisable, the lower 
lamps being two to three feet from the 
ground, the higher about seven or eight 
feet. Footlights also, screened by a low, 
dense hedge, which will mask a wood or 
other opaque shield lined with a reflector, 
may be added to the kerosene equipment, 
if they seem to be required, although 
these cannot, of course, be dimmed 
during the course of the performance, as 
the concealed reflector lights may be. 
And lights along the lattice frame from 
which the curtain depends, if a curtain 
is used, are also possible. 
Ample retiring space beyond or beside 
the stage is, of course, required for per¬ 
formers ; and the theatre’s charm will be 
much greater at all times if this space re¬ 
ceives as careful treatment as all the 
rest, being furnished with seats and 
shelters in picturesque arrangement. Such 
shelters may afford dressing rooms, 
or tents may be set up to meet the re¬ 
quirements of each performance as it 
comes. All of this equipment, however, 
should be absolutely out of view of the 
audience, and everything tending to pre¬ 
serve the illusions should be carefully 
noted and considered, and “in back” 
kept as distinct from “the front” as 
would be the case in any well-regulated 
playhouse. 
Musicians are, of course, to be pro¬ 
vided for “off-stage” with a screen for 
the director, from which he may observe 
the performers and his orchestra as well. 
The Italian theatres show a prompter’s 
box mid-stage, screened by greenery. Of 
course, provision for a prompter must be 
made somewhere. Often he is concealed 
at one side; but details such as these 
must be worked out, of course, according 
to the elements met in each problem. 
The producing possibilities of a gar¬ 
den theatre are almost boundless, and 
practically any play may be adapted by a 
little ingenuity to performance on such a 
stage. The modern revival of the pa¬ 
geant has much that is suggestive for 
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