asbestos curtain

He flitted off, and the stage-director leaned back against the asbestos curtain.

I threw kilfire on the burning curtain but saw it did not stop the blaze and yelled to those below to lower the asbestos curtain.

"So far as could be observed from the audience, the asbestos curtain was not lowered at all," said Mrs. Schweitzler.

They did not say 'Pull down the asbestos curtain,' nor was there any mention of any fireproof curtain.

A big iron asbestos curtain is worked by a lever in the "prop" corner on the prompter's side.