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High above the Alexandria's main auditorium floats this grand chandelier, a survivor of the theater's original 1928 interior decor. The chandelier, in the stylized shape of the sun that was so important in Egyptian cosmology, hangs from a great plaster dome painted as if a skylight open to a blue sky.

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Image: Phaeton image by Anderson Gin and David West Reynolds.


Page updated 19 August 2004

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