asbestos curtain
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The big asbestos curtain hushed all that and the Metropolitan's regular season was ended.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everything but the structural members was of wood; the roller on the asbestos curtain, the pulleys, all of a cheap compromise.
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
At the American Academy of Music, in Philadelphia, the underwriters went so far as to offer a reduction of one per cent. per annum provided an asbestos curtain was placed in the house.
From Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Jones, Robert H.
What was called by employees in the house the asbestos curtain, and also in several theaters in Chicago, has written on it, 'asbestos curtain.'
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
Flat against the stage side of the arch run the "house curtain" and the asbestos curtain that are raised at the beginning and lowered at the end of the performance.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Page, Brett
