Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first performance of the French Play, which was given in Boston last evening, was a pronounced success from the moment that the curtain rose. Union Hall was well filled, and the audience became very enthusiastic as the play progressed...
...Class Day Conspiracy," written by A. Tassin '92, is to be acted tonight as a curtain raiser to Keenan's benefit at the Grand Opera House. The scene of Tassin's play is a Holworthy room, and the plot is a story of Class Day. Tassin takes the leading part...
...leaving this and the inscription over it visible. The scene represents the fronts of three houses in a street in Athens, and is the same throughout the entire play. It is excellently designed and executed; but if possible, even greater success has been achieved in the painting on the curtain...
...curtain in the Roman theatre was not raised at the beginning of a play, but fell into a sort of box under the stage. A similar plan has been followed in Sanders, where the curtain which has been made falls on the Roman principle. The scene painted upon it is a copy of the famous relief in the British Museum in which the god of the theatre, Dionysus, comes with his train to supper with a dramatic poet. The whole forms an admirable work...
...Harvard men who read "Behind the Curtain" in the Advocate last spring will note with interest its author's latest work in the December Monthly, entitled "The Coming Man in Fiction." It is a psychical study of the dominant hero of fiction as he will appear in the near future. The originality and the masculine strength of the English are as strongly marked as is the general incoherence of the whole sketch. What its author says of the future hero of fiction understands by life, "a sum of sensations, strained and attenuated to the last point of consciousness" - might well...