drop-scene

This side view, really very comparable to the peephole made by actors in the drop-scene of a theatre, enabled her to catch a glimpse of numbers of elegant carriages, and

A Second Home 2007

This side view, really very comparable to the peephole made by actors in the drop-scene of a theatre, enabled her to catch a glimpse of numbers of elegant carriages, and

A Second Home 2007

I remember there was a drop-scene on which was daubed a blue lake with very green hills in the distance.

Greenmantle 2005

But as soon as every thing was done with, either of the scenery or of the valuable properties, it was slyly and noiselessly withdrawn through an opening, which had been clandestinely contrived in the slabs of the barn; and at last, when the drop-scene fell, Manager King was the only performer left in the house.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

When the drop-scene descended for the first time, Magdalen had concentrated in herself the whole interest and attraction of the play.

No Name 2003

His life there reminded him of a gaudy drop-scene, let down before an empty stage; a painted sham, with darkness and vacuity behind.

Australia Felix 2003

As regarded political knowledge -- if all his statements were to be trusted -- he was informed as to much that was going on behind the great drop-scene.

The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Various

Persons who are looking for "news from the seat of war" will probably hail the timely appearance of this Engraving, and regard it as folks sitting at a play do a drop-scene between the acts.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 559, July 28, 1832 Various

Death, with undiscriminating hand, had gathered [10] in the human harvest of masters and slaves alike, according to or out of the normal laws of nature; while Time had been letting down on the stage of our existence drop-scene after drop-scene of years, to the number of something like fifty, which had been curtaining off the tragic incidents of the past from the peaceful activities of the present.

West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

But it was none the less the village theatre: the peep-hole through which the villagers obtained a glimpse of many mysteries, and the stage and drop-scene of half the legends of the thorp.

Drolls From Shadowland