Word: proscenium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athenaeum was soon extravagantly restored. Its new, heavily-gilded proscenium and cushioned seats (the first in any Boston theatre) led an inspired advertising agent to boast in bill-board posters...
...music comes not simply from the screen, but from everywhere; it is as if a hearer were in the midst of the music. As the music sweeps to a climax, it froths over the proscenium arch, boils into the rear of the theatre, all but prances up & down the aisles. The hazy orchestra begins to dissolve, and weird, abstract ripples and filaments begin an unearthly ballet in Technicolor...
...Among his performing cats a trainer named Tetchow once had a tom who streaked up a rope hanging from the proscenium arch, got into a parachute basket, floated down to the stage...