Word: prosceniums
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...some respects the Swan was like Sanders Theatre. It had an additional gallery, and the stage, instead of being behind the proscenium arch, was in front of it. The orchestra of Sanders Theatre, if cleared out, would correspond to the pit of the Swan. The fops and gallants, who did not care to go on the stage, used to send ahead their pages to hire stools and reserve good places in the pit. On either side of the pit were the Lords' boxes...
...Mandolin Club will play Saturday evening in Roxbury at the Proscenium Club theatricals...
...ruins of Greek theatres. In 1890 Dr. Wilhelm Dorpfeld, the noted authority on Greek antiquities and first secretary of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, published his conclusions, the results of a careful architectural study of the theatre of Dionysius at Athens, which were to the effect that the proscenium which had generally been considered the front wall of the stage was really the support of the scenery and furnished a background for both actors and chorus who played in the orchestra. The announcement of such results attained by a trained architect as well as scholar lead Professor White...
...liveliest style, and the text is pure and comparatively easy to master. The stage was set very prettily, and in accordance with Greek traditions. The front was the "Orchestra," with a white marble altar or thymele, where the prompter's box is in the opera. Back of this, the "proscenium" or regular stage of the Greeks, was elevated four feet, with marble steps leading to the "orchestra." The back scene had the three doors required in all Greek plays, the buildings being of yellowish marble, shaded and stained with age. Above the roofs of the houses rose the storied Acropolis...
...concert will be given tomorrow evening at New Haven by the combined Yale and Wesleyan Glee Club. As a special inducement, the presidents of both colleges with their families, are to occupy proscenium boxes...