The Viertels' grandfather was a theater builder and the general contractor on Broadway's Mark Hellinger -- now the Times Square Church -- and other Broadway theaters.
He is a 39-year-old movie theater builder who for the past year has operated the Theater by the Sea in Matunuck, R.I., and put on productions like "Ain't Misbehavin' " and "Evita".
Councilman Michael Julian thinks that Mr. Hanney's experience as a movie theater builder will help him to size up the refurbishing that will be needed, and he hopes Mr. Hanney can do so without demanding another pound of flesh from the council.
To upgrade the theaters, builders unbolted some seats, making space for wheelchairs.
The theater's builder, Samuel Rothafel, whose nickname was Roxy, hyped his house at West 50th Street, with its 21 chimes, as "The Cathedral of the Motion Picture," but after the television replaced the movie screen as America's idol, the Roxy was razed in 1960.
This week, Mr. Mackintosh will lead a team of British theater scholars and builders to Lenox for a five-day seminar to advise Shakespeare & Company about the Rose.
With the help of a supercomputer, a state-of-the-art Zeiss star projector, an advanced laser system, a gigantic data base (in which the motions and distances of thousands of stars are catalogued) and, of course, the hemispheric Space Theater itself, the builders have created a marvelous celestial playhouse.
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His practice did not flourish, and at the end of his life, the builder of skyscrapers, department stores, and theaters was designing banks for small towns in Iowa.
First known as the Carlton, the theater was the last project of Joseph Oschwald, a prominent builder who lived in Little Silver and Newark.
"These days every spec house on the market has got to have a home theater," said Christopher Burnside, a Brown Harris Stevens broker who is also a builder of spec homes.
