Word: prosceniums
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...production is ambitious and interesting. For one of the first times in this country a setting is shown such as Munich and other German cities have long used for Shakespearean plays. A dark blue cyclrama drop fills the back of the stage. At front as a kind of inner proscenium, or as replacing the tormentors of former days, are doors at left and right in panels painted to represent marble. Pinkish curtains carry the eye back from the drop curtain to these panels. Properties or bits of setting placed between these panels and the back drop vary the full-stage...
Preparations for the production of "Minna von Barnbelm" are being made by a joint committee from the German Department and the Deutscher Verein. By the end of this week the proscenium will be in place and the stage will be ready for the performance. The scenery is being arranged by Mr. A. P. Keith '02 chairman of the stage committee, and will come from Keith's theatre in Boston...
...proscenium is patterned after the House of Cedars at Lebanon...
...theatre is excellently appointed in every way. The auditorium will seat comfortably three hundred and fifty people, and the stage is large enough to put on a comic opera in first class style. The proscenium arch is a large one, being 22 feet high by 26 feet wide. The stage and mechanical contrivances have been built, under the direction of Mr. E. E. Rose, by Parker and Malloney of the Hollis Street Theatre. Every detail in modern stage construction has been carefully attended...
...wooden benches. To Aeschylus, near the beginning of the fifth century, was due the introduction, upon the edge of this circular area of a wooden hut, or skene. This was the origin of the "stage" building. In the fourth century the theatre was rebuilt in stone, but a wooden proscenium was retained. At a later date this proscenium was rebuilt in stone. It is in the Roman epoch that we find the elevated stage for the first time...