1. Stella tiptoed from the proscenium arch, shielding her eyes from the glare of the footlights.

2. Joe Longthorne pops his head round the proscenium arch on the way to his dressing room.

3. The garlands that swathed the proscenium arch took the audience right on to the stage - in spirit.

4. As soon as the infant Arthur was old enough to be propped against the proscenium arch, he was included in the turn.

5. A need to nod and wink to the audience; to fill in the gaps often elsewhere concealed by a proscenium arch.

6. Just an endless plain with the High Andes cradling and looming over it, like a proscenium arch.

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