Word: prosceniums
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...middle room, will contain display cases, indirectly lighted, and giving the impression of looking through the proscenium arch of a theatre...
...Massachusetts. Oliver Wendell Holmes dedicated a new poem to the infant hall, which the crowd sang to the tune of the Russian National Anthem of St. Petersburg. In its description of the scene, the Boston Advertiser wrote rapturously of "Sanders Theatre, of wondrous size, with ambulatory, vomitorium and proscenium not unlike those of classical antiquity...
MARSHALL: "There was no doubt [in my mind] that the leadership of this group were Marxist Communists and so stated in my presence and insisted, in my presence, that they were. And when I visited Yenan . . . over the proscenium arch [of the meeting hall] was a large picture of Lenin and a large picture of Stalin...
...three new rooms are on the ground floor of the library, replacing some of the stacks. The middle room of the triad will exhibit various parts of the Theatre Collection in rotation. They will be shown in cases, indirectly lighted, and giving the illusion of looking through the proscenium arch of a theatre...
Wright's design called for a hexagonal, unornamented theater built of lightweight metal. To eliminate what he calls "the peep-show character" of conventional theater productions. Wright had eliminated the proscenium arch, set the stage far out into the auditorium. His theater, Wright rumbled last week, was not just one more place to stage shows: "We are fighting to save the theater which needs new tools if it is to come abreast of the medium of movies. We thought this was a good place to begin our crusade...