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auditorium and playhouse in Oklahoma, in fact the largest between Kansas Olty, Mo. and Houston, Tex., is now completed. The building was primarily built to relieve the city’s inability to properly entertain the numerous large conventions that are entertained here, but fills a long felt want for big theatrical and operatic attractions.The Tnlaa Convention Hall Is a municipal building, built by bond Issue, and cost $125,000. It Is constructed of steel, re-enforced concrete and paring brick, and is absolutely fireproof. It has a tenting capacity of over 3,000 (actual seats), which can be iucreased materially when occasion demands.The building Is modern in every particular. The thirty exit doom are equipped with antl-panlc bolts, building equipped with inclines—no atnlrs to climb. Arena or parquet on ground floor, with iortable seats, fioor adjustable, operated on steel frame and jack screws to accommodate aortal acts, one-ring circus, automobile, thou-* and simitar exhibitions.The stage has been equipped by the Kansas City Scenic Co., and the asbestos fire curtain Is the fourth largest ever Installed by this company in the Uni text States.With the new Convention Hull, Tulsa will become even more prominent as a chow town than tt has been In the bust.
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New York Clipper
New York, New York, US
Sat, Aug 15, 1914
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