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...figure paused and tried to drape...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/13/1927 | See Source »

There are two solutions. The simplest is to shift the responsibility to the collective imagination of the audience. Drape the stage with silk curtains, put two chairs in front, twin beds in the rear, and page Mr. Avery Hopwood. Or (as in Dagmar, the sophisticated melodrama with Nazi mova), put three beach chairs on a yellow stage with a blue backdrop and call it the seashore. In Mary the 3rd, Rachel Crothers' humorous tragedy of incompatibility, the first two scenes are mounted only with draperies, a modicum of furniture, and off-stage music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Expressionism | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...bygone years how well we have loved to bedeck them, the festive sailors, the insolent Panamas, with bright ribbons colored--like the Imperial flag--of red, white and black. They have been the resting place on which we could drape our honors. They have been wound with the ribboned laurels of our fame. They have served as heralds to the whole world of our success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAWS TO THE WIND | 5/29/1917 | See Source »

...Drape { the Red and Blue New Haven town } in black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL SONGS. | 6/7/1901 | See Source »

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