Madison Square Theater Original Program. The Madison Square Theater was a major early project for Louis C. Tiffany and associated artists as his firm was commissioned for the entire interior decoration treatment and collaborated with Thomas A. Edison who installed his revolutionary new electric lighting in the building. The main curtain was the work of Candace Wheeler, a member of Louis C. Tiffany and The Associated Artists group, and featured a highly elaborate naturalistic scene in embroidery. Sadly, nothing from this theater is known to have survived. This rare original program brochure beautifully illustrates the elaborate colorful treatment that was lavished on the theater's interior. According to Candace Wheeler: "The curtain was a landscape effect rendered in textiles, including oak and birch trees, wisteria and yucca. All sorts of materials came into use, velvet and plushes for trees and great-leaved plants in the foreground, shadowy silks for perspective and bits of misty blue distant iridescent stuffs of any material which would produce illusion or give the required effect ... Unfortunately, it took fire and went up in smoke before the season was over, but we replaced it with an improved copy." Dimensions 6 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches (15.8 x 13 cm).