asbestos curtain

Example Sentences

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The big asbestos curtain hushed all that and the Metropolitan's regular season was ended.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various

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

From The Little Warrior by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

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

In addition to the main rules about lowering the asbestos curtain once during the performance, doors opening outward, stairways and passages to be kept free, there are some other precautions which must be observed.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various