This probably won't help?
In the dim distanced past I remember they used  various  methods  in diffent spaces.
The olio was a designated space just upstage of the Teaser & Tormentors, which was behind the Grand house rag.
Vaudeville didn't realy take place as such, we Pohms seemed to have jumped from Musical Hall to Variety shows.
But they utallised Olio performers & dancers, such as the Tiller Girls, Windmiller Dancers & other acts as fillers, on the apron stage.
With the olio drops these were oil [painted] cloth drops, later with used as  a false house rag with local adds to pay the power bills, rather than using it for upstage scene changes. Of course they graduated to using slide projectors on the olio for that purpose, which helped with the gas bill as well!
These then become known in a lot of venues as just the Slide Sheet used on the olio Line space.
As a lot of smaller vebues became more mechanised, scrim drops were refered to as the oleo. Meaning suspened or  dampered, when the use of Tumblers, normally used only for scrims, in hemp houses. Was taken over by  more sophisticated fly counterweight systems [to most this  was a newly discoverd system - Yet the principle had only been around since the opening performance of ancient Greek theatre?]
Which brought about the demise of the olio,oleo & tumbler drops. Ameatre still carried on  utalising this method for a long time. but became lost with every crop of amdramers, who have never being exsposed to them.
 untill they are now being rediscovered again, to be utalised in the village hall & whatever venues are being performend in.
Much the same as the pro venues are reverting back to utalising 'Boarder batten' lighting as a new inovation?
when this was said to me by a techie from the  Aussie Ballet  Company, It took a lot to keep a straight face &  just blurt out "Are they, that's amasing!"] 'So everthing old is new again'.
[Gawd I prattle on - but it helps to pass the time,]
Anyhow eting back to what I started out to say, before I unterupted!
 I have no pics of these systems to hand, unlewss i can get one from the Old Mill theatre in South Perth, but that was only a Tumbler my mate & me  made a while ago?
Which has a cloth drum masked by a Boarder & the drop rolls down ontill the tail batten is on the deck.
It was easily produced in a couple of days & operated by one of the crew, without the need for a lot of muscle power.
Unlike the old one made in the 50's, uncovered in the dungeon & they attempted to use, but chucked into the skip instead.
{Why is beyond me? If it hasn't got press buttons & flashing lights, it must be useless!}
So against all their edicts of it's a waste of time & resources, we carried on anyway, putting it together in short order!
we fosicked about the Salvage yards & came near all the bits we needed.
Using a 20' Ali lighting batten,as described in your article. Whe got mate s rates  for 2 bearings & housing to suit  the batten, then cut some disks  out of  odd pieced of ply & chip board, to slide on to the pipe. These acted as support ribs for a lenght of plastic sewer drainage pipe to fit over the batten pipe. We managed to snaffle from a road drainage contractor working near by.
Luckily we had a piece of the plastic pipe to be able to precut the disks to suit the pipes diameter.
securing the disks at regular intervals along the pipe, with small 'L' brackets & tek screws. We sliped the plastic pipe on , with aid of  squirts of dish washing liquid. ]Lemon fragrent of course!].
Tek screwed the plastic pipe tp secure it into place.
Fitted 2 larger disks on the PS end, seperated by  a series of dowels set  around the disks, to replicate as a winding sheave for the operating sash cord.
[I was going to use a wheel fim off a car, without  the tyre & tube, but it would have been too heavy, for the ballance.]
Popped the two bearings in thier housings on the Ali pipe. Used two hemp lines thru single pullies, secured in the roof viod. Gaffer taprd the prepared calico scene drop rolled onto the tumblers drum, then raised it in to place behind  the boarder.
With the drop rolled on the tumbler drum, the hemp lines were cleated & snotted off.
The sash cord line was tied of at one end to the dowelled sheave & wrap laid around it, to a sort of  measured lenght of the drop first before lifting, with the other end left cioled in the balance of the cord.
[Prior to brining in the  tumbler cloth, so it wound wind on as the tumbler cloth was brought in.]
We unrolled the tumber cloth in, untill the tail batten was on the stage deck. Adjusting the long & short hemp lines on the tumbler, untill the tail pocket skirt brushed the deck & was level with the it all hanging square.
It works great & runs easily, comtrolled by the sash cord. So much so they have used it for almost every show since.
I realise this is a load of drivel & not what you article is about, but it may help in some way?
I'm glad you have brought high tech gear that can be used in low tech situations, with price tag, we don't have to save gold bricks up to afford!
I apolgise if this might be confusing [it is to me?] with the spelling & grammar. My medication has not kicked in yet, but coffee & a quite few smokes seems to do the job though! 
I can't seem to get this  ruddy spell checker to work! 

Sorry for the confusion!
A Tumbler cloth drum is flown out, up behind the boarder, with the cloth rolled around the tumbler drum.
when unrolled the tail batten comes in, as though it was a fly drop, from the boarder to the deck. [also known as a roll drop]
Thus the rolling action is from the fly's, t'other way round to the oleo. As it rolls up on the tumbler drum, rather than the tail batten.
Or as other olio's do with two dropper lines, each one runs down on opposite side of the cloth. Wrapping under the tail batten & hauled togeter via pullies, rolling the cloth on to the tail batten, as it is hauled out. The two lines are unsightly on the front of the cloth all the time when it's in. Unless they can be masked in the dropper line colour or as part of the painted scene. Which is next to impossible & only probrable in theory, not practice.
I assume with the 'travelers'. this also includes 'tabs'?
Which as you would realise & know are normally handled on tracking under slung or attached to fly battens [barrels - pipes]. With the tab tracks either dead hung from hemp dropper lines or attached to fixtures in the cieling.
There are a lot of weird gaff arangements such as drapes & clothsrunning on a stretched wire or a cobbled together improvisations.
With drapes or cloths being run on wire or line arrangements, sagging is the biggest problem, when the cloth bunches & the unballanced weight in one area. Also the niose if steel rings are used to carry the cloth.
The usual way around the niose is to use plastic coated clothes line or plastic carries or plastic rings, but sagging will occur no matter how tight the line, even ustalising turnbuckles to tention it.
The only way really is to use tracking, the type produced with bearing carrier rails & used for stage work.
Most theatrical drapes suppliers have them & they are faily generic in style, with sectional straight or curved track pieces & attachments.
With the tracks the hauling line is threaded thru the track. Which keaps it up & out the way, on both travellers & french action tabulating drapes.
In all cases it doesn't take an Achy-tech to design or draw up, as it can all be used straight off the shelf.
As for the Kabuki the only time I have had anything to do with this style of scenery, was as kid many years ago.
It was at a theatre at Bath [UK] where multiple grooves were set in across the stage, for sliding screens. They had a woden insert that dropped in to cover up & have a flush stage deck, when they were not used.
The top tracks were on fly battens & it  was a bit of messing about to set up for large sliding screens.
The terms when I was a kid did tend to differ in Britain with locaction, accents & general lingo of the various areas. [Which can change dramaticly between venues, even though they are only a few miles apart.

One thing I forgot to mention is with the ties used to hang legs, boarders, Teasers, tormentors & scrims. [I have not used them on full cloths as yet]
Is to use plastic reuseable electrial [zip] ties, instead of rope, cord or cloth ones.
These work well & just as quick as tieing the bows off on the batten for bump [get] In & undoing for Bump Outs on shows.
With drops & cloths they may tend to slide depending on the  surface of the batten used, but untill I try, I wouldn't know if the head of the drop may need to be tied off or not in each end to stop side movement. [there again it might be easier adjusting the drops?] as it's not a problem with the maskings.

that's a good idea Susanne.
I have used a lot of weird & wonderful tracking for soft hangings. I never thought of the horse stall ones.
here as I have posted before, we are just a pimple on the backside of the theatre world. So we become adept at using what's at hand for theatre equipment.
Even making our own lighting equipment from roof  guttering. to produce Boarder lights/cyc floods & floats - fly grids from old railway lines!
{We're not fancy - only cheap!}
It is a lot better now & theatre supplies are readily available these days.
Drop breasting [tripping] is not done that often here, mainly because most amdram groups tend to shy away from utalising drop cloths & Fly rigging, as there is only a couple of groups who have a fly loft in thier theatre or even use limited rigging these days.
I always have to smile, when we ol'farts produce a painted scene drop cloth, from a roll of  calico/muslin. Then breast it to fly out with limited hieght problems, to the amasement of the younger ones. [gawd we techies are show ponies.] & when comes to showing them how to make 'thwakers'
or salt water light dimmers - [we have to be complete yoyo's!]
I did a ceiling on a inset cameo trucked box set piece. By breasting it. Which was easy enough by just epoxy glueing a pocket. acoss the centre of the calico cieling drop. Sliding a batten in the pocket & fly it out on a centre line dropper bridle.

I've seen both spellings ('olio' and 'oleo') used as well as the term 'roll drop'.  I'd also seen 'Oleo Drop' used to refer to any painted drop--but especially a vaudeville one.  And I've seen Oleo Curtain used to refer to a painted drop/curtain placed downstage.  Some of these were even referred to as canvas stretched on wood and painted with scenes.