It looks like the wall of a fantastical oriental temple, with intricate stone work that in spots reminds me of a cleaned-up Angkor Wat. It's all fake, in a sense. Theater staff at The Fox told us that this is made from plaster molds and then painted. That in itself must have required a lot of labor, and then think of the maintenance. People who attend a performance don't exactly think they are in a holy place unless they stop to consider the price of their ticket.
Change of subject. Whether you knew it or not, there is such a thing as the International Photography Hall of Fame, and it happens to be located here. Besides exhibits, they do educational programs and workshops. There was one last Saturday about architectural photography, including two hours to shoot inside our totally over-the-top Fox Theatre.
It styles itself The Fabulous Fox. It opened as an enormous movie theater in 1929, closed in 1978, then rehabbed and reopened for stage shows in 1982. It has a twin in Detroit and seats about 4,400 in its present configuration. The decor is - what? - Greco-Roman-Byzantine-Hindu-Muslim madness but everybody loves its excess. More detail to come. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Theatre_(St._Louis)
