drop scene

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The drop scene was used in the city’s only theater in the early 1800s to entertain audiences between shows in the early days of stage performances in New England.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2019

The drop scene was used in the city’s only theater in the early 1800s to entertain audiences between shows.

From Washington Times • Nov. 13, 2019

Mrs. Brickley here drew her cloak more closely about her, as though to enshroud herself in her own refinement, and presented to the Bench a silence as elaborate as a drop scene.

From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin

The frescoes are of the usual drop scene, barocco, academic kind, but where the damp has spared them they form an effective background.

From Ex Voto by Butler, Samuel

It comes at the beginning of a first series of pictures, or as a kind of drop scene between one series of pictures and another.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)