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<DIV>Hi Clyde- </DIV>
<DIV>How are things going at CLOC's cottages and I hear the grid at Highfield is
being ripped out to be replace within a month on our opening? Oh my!</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyway torch: I made one that worked well, though obviously not real,
but it was based on the way the Met Opera did theirs for the 1950's production
of Rigoletto. I bought a very powerful multiple [I think 6} D battery black
metal flashlight so that the handle was like 18" long, fitted a soup can painted
blackaround the head, covered the lens with a light frost and strips of yellow,
amber and red gel and then took some narrow strips of overlapping jagged cut
plexiglass [lucite better] between an inch or inch and a half wide and
between 3 and 7 inches long and glued them in overlapping layers to the
inside of the soup can and then they glowed like they were the flames when the
flashlight was turned on. It looked great on a dark blue stage and was actually
too bright on a very dark stage and I had to layer of some grey gel on top of
the other gels to dim it a little. Took an afternoon and then of course it
disappeared from the proproom a few years later.</DIV>
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<DIV>Good luck</DIV>
<DIV>See you in about a month and a
half............John</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>