Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the curtain rises on Wagner's Götterdämmerung (Dusk of the Gods), three Norns are spinning the dark threads of Wotan's fate. During the next four and a half hours Siegfried is speared in the back, his half-divine wife follows him onto the pyre and all Valhalla collapses in flames. Because Götterdämmerung is the longest and most difficult opera in Wagner's Ring, it is sung more rarely than the others. People squeezed into every available inch of standing room one afternoon last week when Manhattan...
Died. Maude Odell, 65, actress who played psalm-singing Bessie Rice in Tobacco Road; of heart disease; in her Manhattan dressing room, during the play's 1,392nd performance. Uninformed of her death until after the last curtain, Jeeter Lester (James Barton) and Ada (Ann Dere) ad-libbed ingeniously, spoke into the wings when addressing missing Sister Bessie...
...first time in his life House Speaker William Brockman Bankhead watched his daughter Tallulah act in a finished play (Reflected Glory), tearfully observed as the curtain fell: "Parental restraint prevents my gushing. . . ." Before the curtain rose, he signed the $950,000,000 Relief Deficiency Bill...
...Eject that man", directed Senator James Mackay above the roar of hisses as he ended the Child Labor Amendment hearing at the State House yesterday. Kenneth Taylor of the Federation of Labor beat three constables to the door and to the picket line on the Common, ringing down the curtain on one of the best shows of the winter. Since the rule for these occasions is that one Harvard Professor is worth four press-agents, the presence of President-emeritus Lowell and John Raymond Walsh practically guaranteed a page one story. What could not be seen at the start...
This kind of British overture to last Saturday's curtain-raising in Berlin on "The World's Best Paid Male Chorus,"* spoke volumes. It meant that, at the end of four years of absolute power granted him originally by the German Reichstag, freely elected (TIME, April 3, 1933), Adolf Hitler is seen by all Europe as a portentous figure, no longer an upstart but a German Chancellor of almost Bismarckian stature, a figure clothed with the aura as well as the fact of Power. Thus Der Führer was recently painted in what is today his favorite...