drop scene
Example Sentences
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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
Her eyes fell on the same view, which might have been painted on a drop scene so fixed was it, so identical in colour and light day after day.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
The overture ends, the drop scene rises, and there is the sea-shore, a long curling bay: the sea heaving under the moon, and breaking upon the beach, and rolling the surf down—the p. 103stage!
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis
At night the façade behaves very oddly, for it becomes then as flat as a drop scene.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
