Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your, Life, in six days, having meant to write it in five. Aware that many people could not make head or tail of My Heart's in the Highlands, for the new work Saroyan composed a 200-word explanatory note, to be blared through a microphone before the curtain rises...
Balletomanes were charmed by the curtain raiser to the Benét-Moore opera. Called Filling Station, it was a fantasy danced by the Ballet Caravan to polished music by Virgil Thomson. This week the American Lyric Theatre presents more ballet and another light opera, Susanna, Don't You Cry, constructed around the beloved melodies of Stephen Foster...
...curtain fell yesterday on another Harvard teaching career when Louis Allard, professor of French, gave his last lecture in French 7, "Romanticism and Realism in French Literature of the Nineteenth Century." For years Professor Allard has been one of the lecturers in French 6, popular French literature survey course. Yesterday he delivered in French his last remarks as an active teacher...
Coach Andy Coakley's Lions have won but one of their three League games. First of all, they granted the Crimson a welcome 11 to 3 win in New York last month in the League curtain-raiser for the Stahlmen, and then they went on to split a twin bill with Dartmouth. Pitching has been the chief dilemma for the Morningsiders, because most of their flingers are sadly lacking in experience...
...best job of speechmaking but Senator Taft got the biggest headlines: in slightly better oratorical form than the night of his Gridiron Dinner fiasco (TIME, April 24), he took the bold political risk of accusing the President of the U. S. of using foreign policy as a curtain for his domestic difficulties. Excerpt...