TRON III was developed and put in the field for testing three months after the need was established.
"Currently, TRON I and III are being used in deployed locations, and were used at Red Flag, a joint air operation exercise held at Nellis Air Force Base [Nev.]," Turner said.
Both Sansovino's balconies and the utterly new boxes of the Michiel and Tron theaters provided elevated, separated spaces for patricians to watch performances and in turn to be watched.
They were indeed successful in prohibiting performances for the carnival of 1581, as we know from the tax returns submitted in March, 1582, by Ettore Tron and Alvise Michiel, who both declared that their theaters were not in use and therefore producing no income.
They promised to present works of unexceptionable content: "pastorals, tragedies and most wholesome comedies." (61) More importantly for our purposes here, they promised that "we will see to it that at all times the boxes remain open in the rear so that no person will ever be able to hide there scandalously" (62) -- thus, of course, making absolutely clear that the Michiel as well as the Tron theater had boxes and that in the past people had hidden scandalously in those palchi.