1.   He gave a final bow just as the curtains came down.

2.   The audience cheered and clapped as the curtain came down.

3.   To Willi and Gerda she had been no more than a romantic inspiration, a cardboard figure of tinsel who ceased to exist when the curtain came down.

4.   And it will no doubt please the true-blue fans and claques who keep the cult of Callas alive so long after the curtain came down on her last performance.

5.   And the curtain is slowly coming down.

6.   But if the curtain does come down Sunday, it will be in the right place.

7.   But the curtain came down too soon in a Charlton Heston special effect.

8.   But the night the curtain came down on Causeway Street, it fit with disturbing accuracy.

9.   But Wells is back in his role as Jim Farrell, and the curtain comes down on a smooth performance.

10.   Five drop curtains came down, looking like ornate archways.