Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harlemperor of Japan. On a pair of Sullivan heels stutter-toed Mr. Robinson thereupon steps into character to show that at 60 he is still the noblest tap dancer of them all. After that The Hot Mikado is 98° in the shade-and no shade-till the curtain falls...
...fact if this unusually cold weather keeps up, there should be skiing in the North right through April and May. The curtain to the ski season falls sometime in the middle of June at the last outpost of the sport in New England, Tuckerman's Ravine...
...attempted to make the People the protagonist, gave the chorus a great "Revolutionary Scene," in which he planted ideas which did not come to fruit in Russia until 1917. This scene, which ends with a song sung by an idiot (signifying plenty), underscores its point, as the curtain falls, with red fire in Russia's sky in the backdrop...
Returning from the blues of New Haven to the Indoor Athletic Building, we find that the Yardling basketball five coached by Skip Stahley pulls down the curtain on a highly successful season when it entertains the Eli cubs at 8 o'clock...
...Chairman Ed Birmingham of Iowa's State Democratic Committee came close to spoiling the scenery with a blob of politics just before the curtain went up on Mr. Hopkins' act. Zealous candidate for the vacant throne of the Bureau of Fisheries in Mr. Hopkins' department, Mr. Birmingham gave the impression that Iowa delegates were being lined up for Mr. Hopkins' nomination as President next year. Mr. Birmingham was quickly shushed, but no political observer missed the point that the prize at stake in Harry Hopkins' performance was not just one State's convention delegates...