Word: prosceniums
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...category of scenery. He also threatened to close down the play, but later withdrew his objections--for the time being. According to the Cambridge fire chief, the inspector announced that if any more plays were going to be put on in Sanders, somebody would have to build a proscenium arch with an asbestos curtain. The president of HTW suggested that the inspector inform the University on this point, but as yet no one has heard anything about it. But the "no scenery" dictum still stands...
...staging was the production at its best. The group demonstrated that it is possible to turn Sanders into a modern proscenium theatre, but the symbolistic settings it provided, though good-looking and original, did little to relieve the drabness of the play...
...scene was London's solemnly hideous Albert Hall. For the observance of U.S. Thanksgiving Day, its dark Victorian interior was blanketed with American flags, and the flags of all 48 states. A portrait of Lincoln hung from the proscenium; a spotlight played on an American eagle...
...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 billboard posters...
...whom have to have their parts drilled into them by coaches and conductors), she could sit down at the piano and teach herself the most taxing roles. Always a robust Brünnehilde, Matzenauer became one of the most prodigious (203 Ib.) singers ever to prance the operatic proscenium. She married and divorced three husbands. The last of them (a California chauffeur named Floyd Glotzbach) she once fondly described as "100 per cent a man." Margaret Matzenauer sternly disapproves of the career of her daughter, Adrienne Matzenauer, who sings blues and torch songs at Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room...