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Sep 20, 2022 · While the origin of the term is perhaps lost to history, one possible explanation dates back to 1599 and the Blackfriars Theater, which offered a room behind the scenes where actors waited to...
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One of the oldest stories is that London's Blackfriars Theatre (1599) included a room behind the scenes, where the actors waited to go on stage, which happened to be painted green, and was called "the green room".
In the October 7, 1666 entry in the Diary of Samuel Pepys, Pepys describes going with some of his friends to ask the king for money for the Navy, and he writes, “we were called in to the...
Nov 30, 2017 · The stage itself, in 19th century Cockney rhyming slang, was referred to as the “greengage,” which would have meant the room just off the stage was the “greengage room,” or the “Green Room.”
Feb 1, 2022 · Fifty years after Phil Jergenson invented the Proto Pipe, a weed smoking contraption that’s the gold standard (brass, actually) of getting high, he and his brother Richard are introducing new ...
When electric arc lamps were invented, its likely the "gaffers" took over that role, as they were the guys in charge of the set. Lost to history, for now. Who knows when someone is going to find a document that provides more context, or some other bit of evidence.
James Hoban, the original architect of the President's House, intended that the space now called the "Green Room" be used as a "Common Dining Room." An 1801 inventory revealed that first residents President John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams actually used it as a guest bedchamber.
