Our Facility - 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. (Click on thumbnails to view larger photos)