Word: aprons
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...Curtis Wilbur, wife of the new Navy Secretary: "Arrived at Washington, I said to newspaper men: 'I want to do the cooking. I love to cook. My children say I am always in the apron. I am afraid I shall have a lot of social duties which I don't like much. I don't want servants. around. They are too much trouble...
...plot revives the Wars of the Roses. Rose Coe and Rose Helen Trot are at odds over Tony Mason. When Fay Bainter (Rose Coe) appears in the first act in a blue and white checked gingham apron you could be morally sure she was going to win, even if her name hadn't been up in the lights outside. Henry Hull plays Tony and Carlotta Monterey the losing Rose. With such a group there really was no need for a plot; accordingly they all sit about the exquisite Belasco settings (Maine coast in summer) and simply spend three acts...
...vaudeville interests have transformed the auditorium. They have eliminated the bulging stage apron and the billowing semicircle of curtain; they have cut the huge stage in half; they have added hundreds of seats. The Hippodrome is now the biggest theatre in the world with a capacity...
...light, and is using many ultra-modern staging devices. The Gordon Craige screen method is to be used, and brilliancy will be afforded by strong floods of light instead of by paint and tinsel. Much of the action of the piece will take place on the apron of the stage, thus eliminating long and tedious intermissions...
...hollow wooden structure which acts as a sounding box. Another innovation is a curved screen, in front of the footlights, which will throw the volume of sound to the last row of seats. To insure an unobstructed view of the singers by those on the side seats an apron has been extended nine feet out from the front of the stage and upon this most of the singing will take place. The scenery will be placed some distance in the rear of the stage proper. In this way a perspective may be obtained such as is not possible...