drop-curtain

Because, while they were being thus arranged, the preceding turn was taking place in front of the drop-curtain, it was imperative that rigid silence should be kept.

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The drop-curtain was supposed to go up and reveal the twenty dogs seated on chairs in a semi-circle.

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But in politics, like in theatre, the performance can be judged after the drop-curtain.

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Gerhardt had painted the drop-curtain, and assisted in the general construction of scenery and effects.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Kaya shrank back into the leaves that were painted, and they trembled slightly as if a breeze had passed; and the great drop-curtain blew out, bulging.

The Black Cross Olive M. Briggs

There was a regular drop-curtain to the stage, but that was all.

Belles and Ringers Hawley Smart

The stage was broad, planked, with a drop-curtain behind, -- the Doge marrying the sea, I believe; in front, a piano and chair.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

Since there was no drop-curtain, actors had some distance to traverse, on entrances and exits, between the doors and the front.

The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson

The world rolls on, and brings in its course new actors, new scenes, a new drop-curtain, but men and women are always men and women.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

A cloud had come over the moon, light and fleecy at first, but gradually growing blacker and spreading until finally it hung like a huge drop-curtain screening the stars.

The Black Cross Olive M. Briggs