asbestos curtain

The fire began above the stage, but the asbestos curtain that should have kept it from spreading to the auditorium got stuck, or wasn’t lowered, or maybe had never been installed.

Asbestos curtain totally destroyed; wholly inadequate, considering the highly inflammable nature of all stage fittings, and owing to the fact that the same was hung on wooden bottoms.

Eddie Foy shouted something about the asbestos curtain, and the firemen attempted to use it and the stage hands ran to his assistance.

I visited the damaged theater, but there was no sign of an asbestos curtain.

Before we had left the boxes the fire had spread to the first row of seats and the stage hands were endeavoring to lower the asbestos curtain.