Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...green and bronze hues on the sails seem to reflect light from both shore and sea. Most striking of the nudes depicts an olive-skinned brunette and a rosy blonde reclining in affectionate languor on a couch, the pink sands of the Mediterranean gleaming through a window, a pink curtain blowing across a table, a statuet of a man on a pedestal in the background...
Last week British journalists described Victoria Palace audiences as "bewildered" by what they saw. Through the gloomiest of blue lights on a Stygian-dark stage, behind a gauze curtain, Diane appeared and rolled her hips. The audience sat still as mutton. Diane, accustomed to Broadway's anticipatory outburst of clapping, was nonplussed but stuck to her strip-tease routine. The next move, she thought, would get them. Sinuously she let fall from her creamy shoulders a vast chiffon cape, then, striding rapidly to the wings, unsnapped her split skirt, showed a shapely thigh just before she disappeared. In vain...
...When the curtain rings up this evening on a gathering of concentrators in Anthropology, assembled to discuss the high and low spots of their field, the series of meetings that will furnish the basis for the "Crimson" Confidential Guide to Fields of Concentration will begin. Because of the value to incoming Freshmen of an expression of undergraduate opinion with regard to the studies which the University offers, the purpose of the Confidential Guide and the methods by which it is to be prepared should be clear in the minds of all who contribute time and effort in compiling...
...some of her other books, The Years is not experimental. It is written ''straight." Superficially, it is the telescoped chronicle of a London family-an upper middle-class family, like all Virginia Woolf's principal characters. But the actors are not the first thing seen. The curtain goes up on a scene that is pointedly empty of human beings. Time is to be the real protagonist of the story: "At length the moon rose and its polished coin, though obscured now and then by wisps of cloud, shone out with serenity, with severity, or perhaps with complete...
...With the 29th and last "display," the Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus stepped up into another class altogether A rising curtain disclosed a steel cage, 32 ft. in diameter, with a web of netting guarding the top. The lights were lowered a sound like thunder rumbled and syn thetic lightning glimmered. A big, heavy maned lion loped from the runway into the cage, slithered along an upward-sloping row of pedestals until he was crouched on the highest one. Two tigers came in and took their places beside him. Ten or twelve more beasts entered. While some of these were...