Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conn., who raises horses on her Colorado ranch, and a host of other socialites. There was so much alcoholic garrulity in the packed house that the first two acts were hardly audible, but the audience calmed down during the third act and erupted in thunderous acclaim at the final curtain. The play will run at Central City for three weeks. Producer Harris is pointing it for Manhattan this autumn, believes he has a smash...
This ceremonial visit served as an excellent curtain for a tremendous amount of dickering with European bigwigs. Swinging through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, France and Belgium, Dr. Kung was everywhere given the sort of excessively cordial reception he loves. This was because China's credit is better now than it has been for years and because Europe, notably Germany, desperately needs a market for exports. China's credit is currently high because Dr. Kung has begun to make good on a number of defaulted foreign loans, promises to take care of them all. Hitler, Göring...
...diners saw a show in four scenes-California, Coney Island, Florida and Lake Erie-in which the swimming and diving stars performed and the chorus girls dived like rows of falling dominoes, swam in unison to the music, formed decorative configurations in the water. Between scenes a 40-ft. curtain of water projected by jets at the surface hid the stage. In the final scene Billy Rose (real name: William Samuel Rosenberg) gave vent to his anti-Fascist feelings with a song called "It Can't Happen Here," a ballet of Men in Black, Men in Brown...
...immediately after his Party has deserted him and before his marriage to Katie. It is at its best in earlier sequences showing Parnell speaking in Parliament at the time of the trial arising from the Phoenix Park case. Best bit part: Brandon Tynan, Dublin-born actor, who got 27 curtain calls the night in 1902 when he appeared in New York in the title role of a play about Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, as J. F. X. O'Brien, oldest member of the Home Rule Party...
...studying. From the Juilliard he went to Rome on the Horatio Parker Fellowship. In April 1934 Mother Giannini died, a few months be fore Vittorio had his turn at being a sensation. At the world premiere of his first opera, Lucedia, a finicky Munich audience called him before the curtain 22 times. There was a rumor that Lucedia would be put on at the Metropolitan with Dusolina singing the title role, but this has never materialized...