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From: ecl@hocsj.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: re: Movie Curtains
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Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 08:47:10 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  2 08:47:10 1984
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I had heard that closing the curtains was a fire law; it proved that the
theatre (in England) or theater (in the U.S.) had an operational fire
curtain.  It may be a hold-over from live stage plays.