Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral Grayson, head of the inaugural committee, wrestled with an obdurate President, trying to induce him to hold the inauguration in the dry chamber of the House. Noon came, and Franklin Roosevelt's term of office expired but not his tenacity. He had the last word as the curtain fell: "If they can take it, I can take it." Act III was the taking of the oaths. More than 20 minutes late the ex-President and ex-Vice President came out to the dripping inaugural stand. John Nance Garner was the first to make history. Senator Joseph T. Robinson...
...there are excellent characterizations, particularly by Frank Thomas (an old hand) and John Taylor: they are types, but convincing types. But in addition the whole performance possesses a unity and an activity rare in these productions; the scherzo established by the entrance of Stringer is maintained unto the final curtain. The part of Stringer is kept on the jump by Ramon Greenleaf, but gains nothing beyond its writing in his performance. An admirable sketch is supplied by Arthur Barry in the part of Bittlesby, who switches from effeminate efficiency to an entertaining attitude of merrily-we-go-to-hell...
...their books last week, looking forward to a quietly devotional commencement time next spring, in Los Angeles 200 ministers-to-be were graduated with Christendom's dizziest rites from a seminary called the Lighthouse of International Foursquare Evangelism, or simply LIFE. Before admiring parents and friends a drop curtain whizzed up revealing the graduating class clad in shiny armor, brandishing swords and spears, manning a huge, realistic fortress. Below its battlements capered Satan, in multi-colored garments, and a horde of red devils bent on storming the "Fortress of Faith." Massed brass bands blared, everybody burst into song...
...finer girl whose beauty is inward. Deep-reading observers may be able to construe these two as symbols of their mother's condition, and the play as a subtle French study of the menopause. The U. S. translation does not articulate this idea, however, and when the final curtain falls with Miss Browne sobbing in a chair and Sir Cedric wandering vaguely off the set, spectators cannot tell for sure if the play or just the act is over...
...morning 35 years before the curtain rises on You Can't Take It With You, Grandpa Martin Vanderhof arrived at his office building, rode upstairs on the elevator and rode down again. Grandpa had had enough. Thenceforth, he devoted his entire attention to witnessing commencements, visiting zoos, raising snakes, collecting stamps and taking it easy. He encouraged his household to do likewise, with the result that his son-in-law Sycamore took up Meccano and manufacturing fireworks, his daughter (Josephine Hull) turned to painting, then to playwriting when someone left a typewriter at the house by mistake. Grandpa...