Word: prosceniums
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...Down starts out where most musicomedies leave off-with boy and girl singing dreamily of future bliss. As the curtain falls, a stooge in a box noisily protests against the show's happy ending, insists on knowing what happened after boy and girl were married. Thereupon a proscenium mike, representing the voice of the theater, agrees, after a bit of bickering, to follow through. The hero becomes the $25-a-week slave of a pulp publisher, has his pay cut to $21 when the publisher's wife decides to support a Middle-European gigolo, is jailed for exposing...
...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...
Many a mewling white tenor has strutted the proscenium at Manhattan's Metropolitan while more gifted Negro singers, by long-standing custom, were excluded. But in the field of concert singing Negroes like Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson have held their own with the best. Today's most famous Negro singer is soft-spoken Contralto Marian Anderson, whose big, warm-blooded voice is conceded to be one of the world's finest. Last summer at the tony Berkshire Festival near Stockbridge, Mass., another remarkable Negro voice! this time a soprano, threatened to claim a share of Contralto...