Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind a high semicircular counter-like table, a dozen Republicans have sat long and heavily discussing these articles. Behind them hung a rich red curtain, imperially crowned with great loops of gold. Before them was a spacious oblong room with white marble columns, a high vaulted ceiling, huge full-length windows. Outside heavy double doors, securely locked, depended a small sign, bearing the gilt lettering: "Executive Session." A blackamoor has lounged at the entrance to enforce the sign. The sitters within were Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives, their heads together on the forthcoming...
...undoubtedly corralled a large number of its outstanding luminaries, including Actors Will Rogers, George Jessel, Clark and McCullough, Helen Chandler, and Authors Zoe Akins, Gilbert Emery, Cyril Hume, Owen Davis, George Middleton, Clare Kummer and many another. Prospective Fox talking features include Earl Derr Diggers' Behind That Curtain, Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's The Cock-Eyed World, Jerome K. Jerome's The Passing of the Third Floor Back, and the first of an annual revue series called Fox Movietone Follies...
Shortly after its opening, Producer Gilbert Miller attended a performance. When the final curtain descended he proceeded not to the street but to the producer's office. It was 3 a.m. when he finally left. It had taken him all that time to negotiate successfully for the U.S. rights. He at once placed an English company in rehearsal, played it a week in a theatre in London, sailed with it for the U.S. The company rehearsed all the way over on the boat. The players reached New York early last week, rested a day, made their debut in Great...
...money cannot be handled in the dark without stirring some people's suspicions. To dissipate suspicion, President Hoover, by executive order, last week, lifted the curtain of secrecy from the Treasury's income tax operations, sufficiently to reveal the important details of all tax refunds above $20,000. It was a move long demanded by progressives and Democrats in Congress and as long opposed by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. The White House ordered the new policy; the Treasury obediently executed...
...there is an aviator for women who are still pining over Col. Lindbergh; there is a mean old bond-dealer, and a self-sacrificing heroine, and a waitress in trouble; there is enough plot for six plays; there are two intermissions and, at long last, a final curtain. But it all looks like another misfortune for the new Craig Theatre...