Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four months ago the curtain came down on the grand finale of the triumphal history of Franklin Roosevelt, Part I-as he took his bows amid the plaudits of supporters in the hour of his victorious reelection. Last week the curtain fell on Scene I, Act I in Part II of his History...
...typical college musical film, became a national story when College Humor appeared with its four-page spread of eight pictures on "A Day in the Life of a Co-Ed." Heloise was shown climbing out of her double-decker bed in the morning, showering behind a transparent curtain, snaking into a dress, taking notes in class, posed outside with a bow & arrow in a bathing suit, posed inside again "practicing a few dance steps," dancing at a Des Moines hotspot with "Bus" Bergmann, and, also with Friend Bergmann, in the "lingering reality of a good-night kiss...
...town provost's political career to be ruined, for his decision to execute un licensed Patsy arouses the dog-loving electorate, not to hiss, but to bark him out of office. There are also two divorce cases and a love affair attributable to Patsy before the final curtain falls...
...youngster. Filmed in a horse-and-buggy setting in the last part of the 19th century, the film "Rainbow on the River" has all the worst features of that over-romantic age. It is so bad that during the showing everyone laughed where they should have cried, and the curtain was drawn to the tune of a chorus of hisses...
...there six years ago. The late great Respighi chose her to take the lead in his La Fiamma. Mme Cigna made her Metropolitan debut last month as Aïda. Her singing was so warm and rich, her dramatic sense so keen, that the audience called her before the curtain time after time. Later she sang Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Bellini's Norma, Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Though Cigna has a frail lower voice and occasionally forces notes, she sang these ornate roles with brilliance and spirit. Johnson wanted to extend her term...