Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...production in general was careless and inadequate, yet the play "scored." There were nine curtain calls after the third act, seven after the fourth: this the sincerer compliment to Mr. Biggers. The action needs quickening in a few places and the dialogue, compression; on the whole both would be creditable work at the hands of a playwright of long experience. There is, throughout, the "Biggers touch" which we have come to know in many delightful stories, deft character drawing, a humor that is original, refreshingly American...
...displayed in Boston this evening at the following places: Hotel Thorndike, Old South Tower, Tremont Temple, and the Boston, Park, Hollis, Shubert, and Colonial theatres. At the Castle Square theatre returns will be read before the play begins, between the acts, and for half an hour after the last curtain. At the Majestic, and at Keith's, where there will be two shows, one at 7 and the other at 10 o'clock, the returns will be thrown on a screen between the acts and after the play. The American, Journal, Post, and Globe will display bulletins at their offices...
...upon to use his ability as a safe-breaker to release a child from the bank vault. This he does in a very intense scene, thus disclosing his identify. His enemy, however, wilfully allows him to escape the one touch of unadulterated melodrama in the play and the final curtain sees Valentine and his sweet-heart happy again...
...singularly bashful and much afraid of bandits. Through a characteristically comic opera-esque chain of circumstances, he is forced to impersonate his soldier brother who is leading an expedition against the robbers. Needless to say all tangles are straightened out in the fifty seconds before the final curtain...
...husband and leaves for Europe. The second act brings her back literally loaded with smuggled goods, and shows her struggle to deceive the customs officials. In the third act, the officials finally trap her, but she is saved from jail by her husband who forgives her as the curtain falls...