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Stage effect

noun

A special effect created on the stage.

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"Stage effect" Quotes from Famous Books

... then, is not only one of the most picturesque and striking instances of stage effect to be found in the ancient or modern drama, but by the skilful manner in which it is prepared, it has, wonderful as it appears, all the merit of consistency and truth. The grief, the love, the remorse and impatience ...

— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson

... look real—it had a kind of theatrical effect. The surroundings were too like a museum; the entry of the labourers after the chiming of the bell closely resembled a stage effect—the old grandmother, the children, the bright cotton shirts and skirts, the wondrous fireplace, the spinning-wheel and weaving-frame—yes, it all seemed too picturesque, too full of colour, and too well grouped to be an event in our commonplace ...

— Through Finland in Carts • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie

... forth, yellow and red jewels; then the moon, rising like a stage effect, too big, too strongly lighted to seem real, peering inch by inch above the hills and ushering in silence. We could hear one muezzin in Jerusalem wailing ...

— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy