Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first productions by the 47 Workshop under its new system of financing performances by private memorial endowments will be given in Agassiz House, Radcliffe, next Monday and Tuesday evenings at 8 o'clock. The Thornton M. Ware memorial, as it is called, will include two plays, one a "curtain-raiser" by Sydney van Kleeck Fairbanks '17, of Cambridge, "The Other Voice," and the play of the evening, "Prudence in Particular," by Rachel Barton Butler, a special student at Radcliffe. The latter is a three-act comedy of young married life in the Middle West. Miss Butler is the recipient this...
...scene of the second act is the dungeon, and for a moment, just after the curtain is up, there is a true dramatic touch in the sight of Godred praying in the moonlight. Lady Silchester visits him in his cell and is discovered by Lord Henry Fitzwalter, who loves her. Tableau: frightened heroine, brave hero, scurvy villain. Godred conquers by means of his "evil...
...canvas curtain in the Cage for the hammer throwers was tried out with excellent results. The men stand about fifteen feet from the curtain and throw just as if they were doing regular work outdoors. Heretofore the hammer throwers have not been able to practice till the regular spring track season opens in March. But with the curtain, which is something entirely new, the men will have an opportunity to develop the proper form and get a start before the outdoor work commences...
...Dramatic Club has selected the cast for its fifteenth production to be given in the Hasty Pudding Theatre on December 14 and 15, and in Copley Hall, Boston, December 116 and 18. The curtain will rise at 8.15 o'clock and dancing will follow the performances on December 14-and 16. The play, "The Perverseness of Pamela," by Virginia Church, is a delightfully keen comedy in three acts, dealing with the social intrigues and amusing side of life at a well-known army post. The chief figure, of course, is Pamela, an irresistible, charming, incorrigible young lady who keeps everyone...
...rapidly. The final arrangements have been completed for serving supper on the field at 5 o'clock, in order to accommodate out-of-town guests. The intermissions after the first and second acts will be half an hour each in length, and trumpeters will herald the rising of each curtain by playing representative motives from the opera, after the custom at Beyreuth...