Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Triangle Club, Princeton's dramatic association, has been rehearsing daily the two plays which will be presented this year. "The Tiger Lily," a short farce, will be used as a curtain raiser. The other, "Lend Me Five Shillings," is a comedy by John Madison Morton, and deals with society life in the early part of the present century...
...performance was in every way an improvement over the dress rehearsal of Thursday evening. At the close of the first act the curtain had to be raised five times before the graduates were satisfied. A number of speeches were made between acts, congratulating the club on its progress...
...prompt box, and electrical devices of the modern theatre are complete. There are one hundred electric lights in the foot and border lines of the stage, and as many more on the chandeliers of the auditorium, all of which are operated from the big switchboard on the stage. The curtain and automatic fire sprinklers which protect the scenery will be put in this week. The total cost of the theatre and furnishings is about...
Next week the company will present a double bill-"Marriage by Lantern" and "Pagliacci." The first, the curtain raiser, by Offenbach, is a merry bit of comic opera with parts for four principals. The second opera, by Leoncavallo, is more widely known. Both will be produced with entirely new scenery and costumes...
...last performance of the '96 Hasty Pudding theatricals was given at the Club House last evening. The hall was crowded, in spite of the threatening weather, with a most enthusiastic audience. From the rising of the curtain on the first act to the end of the play, the most generous applause was given, and all the principals were repeatedly encored. Parker's song in the third act, The Typical Topical Song, especially caught the audience with its local hits, and verse after verse was called...