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Drop curtains and seven scenes or sets for the stage were available.

A second drop curtain was created in 1979 during the theatre restoration.

And to the right was an open dance floor flanked at the back by drop curtains.

We could only dance back beneath the dropping curtain while the crowd still cheered and the chairman called for order.

The stage drop curtain was painted with a scene from Colorado and was considered a work of art.

The last flush of amber vanished from the sky with the speed of a dropped curtain.

But before she went to see exactly what she had accomplished, she cut through the rope to the drop curtain too.

He sidled to the back of the stage near the big drop curtain that framed the Spanish-courtyard scene.

Let us close our eyes with the eyelids that are the drop curtains of the mind's theatre, and let the great show commence.

The drop curtain was a handsome painting, representing the "Decline of Carthage."

During this time, the drop curtain was down, hiding the stage, and the orchestra was playing for the intermission.

Not only did he paint the ceiling (now lost) and the drop curtain, but he painted the interior of the auditorium as well.

The ballet itself has long disappeared, but the drop curtain, of two women bounding along a beach, has survived.

(The drop curtain shows a cityscape of high-rise apartment buildings.)

It featured three side-by-side basketball courts with drop curtains to separate the three sections.

The drop curtains of the stage and the lights of the boxes and halls, were brought from Austria.

Over it all, thick black clouds floated in clumps, dropping curtains of rain and flurries of show.

They worked for four years on the ceiling of the auditorium and on the drop curtain of the tragical opera.

In addition, the acoustics can be varied to some extent through the use of hanging panels over the stage and drop curtains on the upper walls.

And if she lowered the drop curtain far enough, fast enough, it might smother the flames in the side curtain.

"We don't drop curtains down anymore," Jules Fisher, the lighting designer, adds dryly.

Often he dreamed up stories about ballets and operas and occasionally designed sets, costumes and drop curtains.

It included a balcony and a professionally equipped stage, complete with drop curtains, overhead lighting, and sunken footlights.

With pale, indifferent eyes, we sit and wait For the dropped curtain and the closing gate: This is the end of all the songs man sings.

She saw the windlasses, saw which ones raised and lowered the pieces of scenery in the overhead grooves, which one operated the drop curtain.

I got it into the drop cloth and tried winding again.

He moved another cast to pull more of the drop cloth off.

The nurse spreads a white drop cloth on the floor.

No, wait, here was something really useful, almost within reach: a drop cloth.

In her mind's heart she'd seen a lot of furniture covered with drop cloths.

Looks like a car cover or a drop cloth.

Remove the furniture, then lay down a drop cloth to protect the floor.

He was flat on his back on a white drop cloth.

The drop cloth around his shoes is stained with wet paint.

Before you start, spread newspapers or a drop cloth and put on a pair of gloves.

I got out my drop cloth and unfolded it.

Crane walked over to the drop cloth, rubbed it between his fingers.

I don't think you'd mistake either for a painter's drop cloth.

The contractor has the rooms full of drop cloths and buckets.

Right now, the furniture is swathed in white drop cloths.

He pulled the drop cloth aside and studied the oxygen tank.

He took the drop cloth on the workable and threw it over the skull.

It reminded me that I had fetched a drop cloth for this purpose.

Before starting, spread drop cloths around the base of the area to catch the mess.

"I don't suppose you'd recognize the drop cloth if you saw it again."

Behind a drop cloth suspended like a stage curtain inside the gallery is a large chamber.

A drop cloth with a rubber backing might explain the absence of blood,' Ring said.

"They had a satchel, a drop cloth and assorted knives."

Then place a drop cloth or newspapers over the area, and walk on it until the squeaking stops.

The professor whisked a drop cloth off another chair, which he gave to Raoul.