Today is September 6, 2010 - 1:59PM

The Red Auditorium

 

 

The Red auditorium is Chinese.  Go figure.  Enter through our Anna Mae Wong gallery (she was the world's 
first Oriental Hollywood star who had a fascinating yet tragic life which can be read about in that room or here
on this website). Notice the two intricate vases, pieced from small, hand carved, polished bone panels (you'll
see two giant matching tusks inside made in the same manner).

Flanking the doorway are two colossal Chinese Temple Dogs made from green granite. Don't know how
heavy they are, except they bent the iron of the first two hoists while trying to get them in place, the third
and biggest hoist finally did the trick. Don't kick them, you'll be sorry.

You have now entered our Chinese Palace. Hand-carved wood panels and dragon columns, authentic
antique Chinese lanterns, delicately carved oriental stained glass, a giant Buddha, more dragons, eight tons
of full size terra cotta warriors and four giant Emperor's statues all imported from the Orient just for this
theater. Even the two real (but dead) peacocks still look pretty good.