Text Appearing Before Image: LOBBY. ORPHEUM THEATER. NEW ORLEANS. LA.G. Albert Lansbur^h. Architect Text Appearing After Image: SHRINE AUDITORIUM, LOS ANGELES• G. Albert Lansburgh. Architect Jolin C. Austin and A. M. Edelman, Associates THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 69 The New Orleans lobby is a brilliant terra cotta tour de force. It is really stone design, but carried out in detail that is definitely appropriateto terra cotta. The floor was designed by Leon Solon, and its quiet tiletones and broad pattern form an effective setting for the gay palette ofwhite walls, spots of red, blue, brown and green, and coffered gold ceiling.Altogether a very festive entresol, and quite in character. The foyers are properly treated in a more sober but still elegantfashion. The stairway at Loews Warfield is an especially attractivefeature, as mentioned previously. Furniture, floor and wall coverings,fixtures, are handsome, in good taste, and fit their purpose. Mr. Lansljurgh has evidently guaged the public taste accurately,and his theaters have the stamp of popular approval. Use of Stone in Bung-alow Construction THE populari
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