drop scene
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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.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2019
The drop scene was used in the city’s only theater in the early 1800s to entertain audiences between shows.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2019
Suddenly this enchanting landscape seemed to rise swiftly upward like the drop scene at a theatre, and vanished in a blank.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce
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.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Suddenly this enchanting landscape seemed to rise swiftly upward, like the drop scene at a theater, and vanished in a blank.
From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American by Julian Hawthorne
