Word: proscenium
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...General Butler is to occupy a proscenium box at the Globe this evening, visitors to the theatre will have an admirable opportunity for comparing high types of English and American beauty. - [Transcript...