drop scene

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.

The drop scene was used in the city’s only theater in the early 1800s to entertain audiences between shows.

It comes at the beginning of a first series of pictures, or as a kind of drop scene between one series of pictures and another.

Mrs. Brickley here drew her cloak more closely about her, as though to enshroud herself in her own refinement, and presented to the Bench a silence as elaborate as a drop scene.

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.