The seating area was divided into the parquet and the parquet circle - two separate areas on the floor in front of the orchestra pit.

Parquet and parquet circle seating occupied the theater's ground floor and contained 600 seats.

In the lower auditorium, parquet seating, inconveniently close to the stage, cost seventy five cents while the parquet circle cost a dollar fifty.

Pacing the stage slowly, she gazed past the footlights to the parquet, with the parquet circle above it, then the regular balcony and, highest of all, the family circle.

Among the police and fire fighters, this idea stemmed largely from the last searches of District Engineer Farley: no one had been seen in the parquet or parquet circle.

Some attendees in the parquet circle heard what sounded like a brawl behind the curtain, shouting by men, and the working of machinery; they could easily hear it above the playing of the orchestra.

One of the theater owners, Col. Abner Keeny, said that about 360 people purchased tickets for the dress circle and about 250 people in the parquet and parquet circle.

Despite the initial scenes of despair and panic that had issued from that quadrant, patrons in the lower parquet and parquet circle were able to escape in under three minutes, having access to Flood's Alley and Washington Street exits and having no flights of stairs to negotiate.