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

Behind them were the clumps of cypress trees which framed a vista of endless wooden garden and formed their drop scene.

From Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches by Baring, Maurice

The overture ends, the drop scene rises, and there is the sea-shore, a long curling bay: the sea heaving under the moon, and breaking upon the beach, and rolling the surf down—the p. 103stage! 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis

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 178 drop scene.

From Humours of Irish Life by Various