41.   When the curtain rose on the first opera production at Will Rogers Auditorium, Ruth Poindexter was there, playing violin in the orchestra.

42.   When the curtain rises, the two young men in turn-of-the-century formal attire have just found a metal tube.

43.   With the lights still on, before the curtains rose, we entered.

44.   Yet when the curtain rose, the Niners basked in the spotlight.

45.   Before curtains rise again, theaters will dim their marquee lights to honor the victims of the terrorists.

46.   Jed Bernstein, president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, said that before the curtains rise the theaters will dim their marquees to honor the victims.

47.   Now that the curtain has risen on Act II of the O.J. Simpson trial, key players are still on stage.

48.   The film ended and the curtain rose on the same ballet, with the same male principal and the same pianist.

49.   The man who transformed the Senate was not there when the curtain rose on the new order.

50.   A home-made curtain rises on a shopkeeper selling out-of-date potato chips to children.