This is an electrical age. Wonders that would have dumbfounded our fathers, even ourselves a few years ago, are now taken as a matter of course by everyone.

But there's a thrill awaiting the most knowing of folk at the new Victory theater when the lighting effects are started working Saturday.

Audiences will be surrounded with the same.

Every change in light, both in color and intensity, on the stage will be reproduced in the audience. The audience will be surrounded with the same lighting effects as appear on the stage.

This unusual piece of electrical work was done by an Evansville contractor, Anderson and Veatch.

Today most people are only interested in the effect, and overlook the cause. The cause of this unique lighting in the Victory theater is almost as interesting as the pleasing effect. The many changes of light is [sic] produced through a major dead-front switch board located on the stage. With this switch board, known as the remote control syster, no lighting change is so complicated that it cannot be made instantly by the operation of a single lever.

It is possible to set up any number of lighting changes ahead without interferring with the lighting effects in operation at the time. It is so arranged that any individual switch unit or combination of units or even the entire board can be controlled from the moving picture booth or from any other part of the theater. All this can be done without the slightest danger to the operator as the switch board itself is located in the basement.

Three colors, red, white and blue, are used in all the fixtures, which made it necessary to run three circuits to each outlet. In both the theater and hotel more than 130,000 feet of wire was used of one size, and the wire used of all sizes including feeders would be enough to run a line from Evansville to St. Louis and back again.

The main lights and general il­lumination for the hotel and theater are on two separate feeders from the power plant.