Festival Hall
Festival Hall, Robert Farquhar, of Los Angeles, architect. Modern French architecture, of the Beaux Arts style, Paris. Used in many French theatres; not a natural growth in this country, but growing in favor; building arrangement fine. Details from Le Petit and Le Grand Trianon. Coloring. light green, not so effective as on Horticultural Palace, popular with French architects.
Figure on corner domes, “The Torch Bearer,” Sherry F. Fry, of New York.
Figures on sides of shield over big central arch, by Fry. Decorative. West entrance.
Reclining figures, above, on sides of entrance, by Fry. To right, Bacchus with grapes and wine-skin. To left, a woman listening.
Groups in front of ball, on sides of stairway, by Fry. “Flora,” flower girl on pedestal, repeated. On left below pedestal, “Young Pan,” seated on Ionic capital covered with fawn skin, his music arrested by sight of lizard. On right, young girl seated.
Greek drinking horns, rhytons, repeated around entrance, on cornice, suggest festivity.
Symbol of Music, the lyre, above entrance.
Recital Hall, on the second floor of Festival Hall, eastern end, contains fine stained glass windows. Designer and executor, Charles J. Connick, of Boston. Three windows, a small one or, the landing of the north stairway, and two larger ones on the west wall of the hall itself.
On the stairway. Figure of a young monk bearing a scroll inscribed with “Venite exultamus domin” (“Come, let us exalt the Lord”).
In the hall, window to the left. In the large tipper section, a figure of St. Martha of Bethany. Below, Christ and three women, one kneeling.
In the hall, window to the right. In the large tipper section, figures of two men, the wise men, one watching the star, one seated reading; an owl and a lantern in the window also. In the small section below, a ship with a cross on the main sail; the cross is of the design used in the Crusades.