Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...curtain rises on ruffians and rebels. Lieutenant-General Castillo is a walking menace to law and order, and his chief, the redoubtable Ohdearno, lends dignity and solidity to the desperate undertaking. And then there is Anita, incarnation of sinuous wickedness and unscrupulous grace -- alluring, exotic, venomous. You can imagine what trouble she makes. Even in the face of death and its dread alternative, matrimony, our friends find heart for song and dancing, yet the story bravely progresses towards its climax, with real sparks crackling from the wireless machine. All the characters turn up, and even the red-headed office...
...editor with no hesitant hand draws aside the curtain to reveal such figures as that of the "Dismal Science," surrounded by her ill-fed devotees. The tableau has its lesson...
...other German cities have long used for Shakespearean plays. A dark blue cyclrama drop fills the back of the stage. At front as a kind of inner proscenium, or as replacing the tormentors of former days, are doors at left and right in panels painted to represent marble. Pinkish curtains carry the eye back from the drop curtain to these panels. Properties or bits of setting placed between these panels and the back drop vary the full-stage scenes. In Adriana's house rich, red curtains shut off all except front stage. The thoughtful and skillful setting proves how well...
...third act, on the whole very much better than the first, MacFarland's cry of "Sing Sing!"--so tragically does Mr. Craig give the line--takes one out of the farcical atmosphere and brings the curtain down with a cold thud...
...play at the Hollis this week begins at nine forty-five; the curtain rises as usual at eight...