Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adventurous Blonde," third in a series of police-tabloid murder-romances, starring glamorous Glenda Farrell, rounds out the bill, and over this picture the curtain of charity should be drawn...
...Donkin Club). Things get pretty tense. The headmaster abolishes the school regatta, and Donkin packs up to leave. Only in the nick of time is he reinstated, and the oldest minx marries the shy music instructor, Philip ("Poop"), who calls his baby grand piano "B. G." For the final curtain Donkin stands alone in his study listening to the boys ("Old Crump," "Bimbo," "Flossie," and their pals) singing Auld Lang Syne...
...whole tragedy, by means of the judicious cutting, is packed into an hour and a half. This brevity allows the tension to be sustained throughout the entire play, and the curtain does not fall till the end. The lights go out to indicate the change of scene, but there are no sets to be shifted, and consequently the intermissions of darkness last only a few seconds. The happy circumstance that Shakespeare wrote without presupposing any scenery prevents any possible confusion over where the events are taking place...
...over the most malignant of operatic orchestrations. Their frenzied, hagridden Elektra, daughter of the slain Agamemnon and instigator of the ghastly revenge that overtakes his killers, demanded a singer of enormous endurance. Mariette Mazarin, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1910, fainted while taking her final curtain calls. The late Ernestine Schumann-Heink, powerful Katrinka of opera singers, left the original cast at Dresden because she considered the part of nightmare-haunted Klytemnestra too strenuous...
...best seller. Yet when the opera was revived last week at the Met, a capacity audience, including silk hats and standees, gave it the lustiest ovation heard there in several seasons. Principal object of their applause: a dark, hefty Hungarian soprano. Rose Pauly. who heaved and panted through 15 curtain calls after her Metropolitan debut in the title role. Other objects : the sinister, pasty-faced Klytemnestra of Kerstin Thorborg; the brilliant conducting of Artur Bodanzky. Pauly, whose last year's appearance in a concert version of Elektra under Conductor Artur Rodzinski was the sensation of the Philharmonic-Symphony season...