... the foot into pink at the top, the dome overhead being alsoof the latter colour, giving the whole room a warm, glowing tint. Therewas a thick round velvet mat in the middle of the floor, pink ... altered and improved, is used;and the smallest sound in the one theatre is heard in the other as dis-tinctly as in the first, even to the furthest off part of the gallery. This,which is a private ... in the year 2000. How the men in the nineteenth century could put up withthem was always a mystery to me. They all, without exception, said theyhated them; yet they always went on wearing them....