"No matter in which direction you look in the Riviera Theater a beautiful vista meets your eye. It may be the rich velvet curtain or the paneled wall decorated in soft pastel tints or the artistic proscenium arch, each one is a delight to the eye. But many people are going to be gazing upward at the great dome in the center of the ceiling.
This dome is painted in a sky effect of azure blue with fleecy white clouds passing over it. Colored lighting effects with dimmers have been installed in the theater, which can be manipulated so that forty different combinations of colors may be obtained. These colored lights playing over the dome give a harmony of color which is delightful.
First the deep blue of midnight may delight the eye, then the faintly tinted blue of the morning with the gold of the rising sun driving away the night. Following this comes the bright sunshine of high noon. Then the rosy hue of sunset and the delicate pinks abd violets of the afterglow slowly fading away and again merging into the shadows of the night.
The dome is outlined by an ornamental plaster bas relief border of deep ivory touched here and there with gold and further decorated with terra cotta and pastel blue.
These lighting effects are not only for use on the dome, but can also be thrown over the entire theater and the beautiful glow of changing colors shedding their soft light over the delicate colorings of the walls and ceiling make the theater a veritable fairyland."
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