Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alumni and invited guests ate, drank, cheered, and sang in the Harvard Club last night, the curtain came down on the successful football season...
...keep a man in the know from betraying the here's duplicity, and the show gains little by it. The efforts to make him appear mad are scarcely more subtle than the preliminary stealing of his pants. One comes dangerously close to boredom while waiting for the first curtain. The second act looks up considerably, however, and the wiles of the bared bigamist in dodging the gendarmes and the bobbies are cleverly contrived. The hero is able to evade the law, but unable to escape from the dilemma of having two lovely wives. Mr. Dietz finally works out an answer...
Feathers flew in a barnyard battle backstage at the Dramatic Club play last night, delaying the curtain a full seven minutes...
When the Yardlings take the floor against M.I.T. Wednesday evening in the season's curtain-raiser, the spectators are going to be able to product the outcome with as much chance of hitting the nail on the head on the head as Coach Skip Stahley himself...
...blend of unblushing sentiment and desiccating humor smacks strongly of Dickens at his best. Its success (and that success was so great the first night in Boston that it drew out some dozen curtain-calls) is due in large part to the masterly work of Frederick Leicester who, besides staging the play, plays the principal role. When there is so perfect a coincidence of character and actor, no criticism is called for. Peggy Simpson in the part of the youngest of the corrosive trio is impish and irreverent to perfection; Jane Sterling makes an excellent middle sister, a beautiful, exuberant...