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
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.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
No less than thirty-five islands, like beauty spots of a fairy "drop scene," bedeck the silver sheen of its surface.
From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Praeger, Robert Lloyd
The drop scene had fallen for a minute or two before he began to look around him.
From The Marquis of Lossie by MacDonald, George