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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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