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
The arrangement is somewhat like that followed in many modern melodramas, where a scene not requiring properties is acted in front of a drop scene while scenery is being set behind.
From An Introduction to Shakespeare by MacCracken, H. N.
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 Bierce, Ambrose
The frescoes are of the usual drop scene, barocco, academic kind, but where the damp has spared them they form an effective background.
From Ex Voto by Butler, Samuel
