41.   The opening night curtain went up with a woman, Sally Kroeker, as Truvy.

42.   Then the lights go down, the curtain goes up and they are transformed into vessels of incredible beauty.

43.   Usually a rather businesslike affair, this meeting startled some workers as the curtain went up and the pulsing beat of rhythmic music started.

44.   We could be very much like one who goes to the theater after the curtain has gone up and the play has been in progress for some time.

45.   When the curtain goes down for the last time and the audience keeps applauding for more, does an old trouper walk off stage and fade away?

46.   When the curtain goes down, all the bodies are lying on the stage, dead.

47.   When the curtain went down on communism, officials considered turning the building into a commodities exchange or a Siberian nature museum.

48.   When the curtain goes down, the theater is a very empty place, a very lonely place.

49.   When the curtain went up for Act Two, the blinding whiteness of the Siberian winter provoked instinctive applause.