Beauty and Adaptability of California Pine Panels Demonstrated

The beauty and adaptability of California Pine plywood panels as a decorative medium have recently been demonitrated by an extensive and iflteresting installation by The Red River Lumber Company in the Westwood Theatre at Westwood, California.

The panels used were finished at the factory by the new color-sandblast process developed by this company and qgyr being marketed under the trade name "RED RIVER PANEL". By this unique process, for which patents are pending, the color application is combined with the sand blast erosion which cuts away the soft wood leaving the hard grain in relief.

There is no limit to the colors, shades and color-combinations obtainable in this Red River process. The combination of light and shade and the blending of colors gives a great variety and interest to the surface of the wood, en-

The walls around the organ lofts are in rose tints and the stenciled border around the ceiling is purple and rose with a touch of green, coral and yellow in the tops of the pilasters.

- The cost of this job, using RED RIVER PANEL throughout, was figured against an estimate for repainting and rekalsomining-the old walls and the cost of the panel installation was about 15 per cent higher. This was more than made up in the saving in time and the fact that there were no wet wall surfaces at any time.

There was no interference with shows, no shut down and no loss of box office receipts. With seven night performances and six matinees weekly every opening was on time and the saving of income went a long way toward paying for the new material and work.

The entire installation was made by carpenter labor as hancing the natural beauty of grain pattern, and the effect is something said to be impossible to get by any other means. the panels, stencils, trim and mouldings were finished before-delivered, and there was "nothing to do but nail them on." The only work done by painters was to putty exposed nail heads after the installation was in place.

In the Westwood Theatre some vivid colors were used with telling effect where a color accent was needed, but the general tone is one of restful quiet. In the lobby there are wall panels &xlz0 inihes, with one-piece faces done in scarlet-and-gold, separated by pilasters in green-and-gold, while the ceiling is in cream with stenciled brown beams and a touch of red moulding. The ticket booth is in blackand-gold, red-and-gold, and black-and-silver panels with trim of green and scarlet mouldings.

In the foyer the wall panels are gray-and-brown in the wainscot and green-and-rose (soft pastel shades) above, with heavy box-beamed ceiling. The auditorium, with its 3Gfoot high walls, carries panels 5 by 10 feet in yellowand-tan. The pilasters are of a green-brown tone, resembling the bark of trees. These wall spaces on account of theii large area must be more or less neutral, but the variety of color and light invites the eye to explore its subtle pattern, and regular patrons of the theatre remark that they never tire of looking at the walls.

Lobby and ticket booth. Picture ponels on roof of tichet booth are stenciled,, sandblasted and colored.

- The Westwood Theatre is a modern house of 1,10O seats, with water-washed air ventilation, a large pipe organ, and the latest type of stage and projection equipment. It is built entirely of wood, yet carries a low rate of insurance, and has been favorably passed upon by underwriters' inspectors. This is due to the heavy "slow-bu-rning construction," an interesting example of the use of heavy timbers and solid walls.

There are no studding walls, even the partitions are built up of 3-inch cedar, ceiled both sides,' set in between the posts. The 14x18 posts running from.foundation to eave, with their corbel tops, are carried through the interior u'alls, where they are boxed in and form the main architectural note. Thi large pilasters shown in the illustration of the wall .detail are the actual posts, the two narrow pilasters are applied as battens.

This installition proved the economy of the use of panels where they are finished before being placed on the wall, (Continued on Page 77)

Automatic Stacking

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