3-021-611 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The new Globe Theatre, Strand, [London], 1869. 'The box-circle has five rows of seats, part being regarded as the dress-circle (at 4 shillings each seat), and the remainder as ordinary box-seats, at 2s. 6d. The admission-money to the pit is 1s. 6d. Above the boxes is a large gallery, the front row of seats in it being treated as amphitheatre stalls. The front line of the boxes forms nearly a circle, cut off at about two thirds of its extent by the proscenium. The ceiling is a dome, with a sunlight in the centre. The seats are commodious, and there are very few places in the house where what is passing on the stage cannot be seen and heard. The theatre has sitting accommodation for 1500 persons, exclusive of the eight private boxes. The decorations of the dome and ribs, the proscenium, gallery, and box fronts are of papier-maché, in white and gold mainly, with a little blue along the bottom of the box-fronts. The crimson curtains of the private boxes, with gilded frames, are effective. The appearance of the whole is bright and pretty...The Globe has been built from the instructions of Mr. Sefton Parry, the proprietor, by Mr. Samuel Simpson...The whole of the interior decorations are by Messrs. White and Co.'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.