Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography
CHAPTER II.
SOME REMARKABLE STAGES, ANCIENT AND MODERN.
An Electric Curtain--The Fan-Drop Curtain--An Elevator Theater Stage--Some Remarkable American Stage Inventions--A Revolving Stage--The “Asphaleia” Stage--A Theater with Two Auditoriums-- Curio’s Pivoted Theater--The Olympian Theater of Palladio at Vicenza, 268