Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With You is deliberately banal. Two young lovers are nearly parted because of their families, a dramatic situation which has not grown any younger since Pyramus & Thisbe. So theatrically threadbare is this narrative scheme that it takes an ignited dish of red fire to bring down the first act curtain, an off-stage explosion to close Act II. These punctuations are, however, not really necessary for in creating Grandpa Vanderhof (Henry Travers) and his clan -the Girl's family which the Boy's family views with alarm-the playwrights have conjured a species of dramatis personae which transcends...
...afternoon last week the Circus de Paris was playing in Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre. "Bride of the Lion" went off as scheduled and the curtain fell. Suddenly from the stage came screams, roars, shots. A juggler rushed out, distracted the audience by beginning his act in front of the curtain. Behind it, Dr. Hamiter was tugging a lion named George off prostrate Gladys Cote. Her lacerations were not fatal, but bacteria under the lion's claws were. Gangrene developed and in three days Bride Cote was dead...
Slim, 15-year-old Betty Jaynes (Betty Jane Schultz) stayed abed much of the week, kept silent a full day previous to her debut with the Chicago City Opera Company as tuberculous Mimi in La Boheme. So ably did she sing that she won 21 curtain calls, unanimous praise from Chicago critics, brought the orchestra cheering to its feet, two pleading cinemagents to hers...
...secrets in recent history have been so badly kept as Lawrence's many secret missions and changes of identity, his periodic and highly publicized droppings-out-of-sight. Few carefully-guarded, privately-printed volumes have become so well-known as his Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Last month the curtain was drawn from another characteristic Lawrence concealment when Critic Henry Seidel Canby, beating the release date on a book by 14 years, received Lawrence's $500,000 posthumous volume, The Mint, for The Saturday Review of Literature...
...events, the falling of the curtain found the United States victor in its internecine war and still in friendly relations with Great Britain. Most of the issues of that day,--neutral rights, the Alabama Affair, the fishery controversy, the Fenian Brotherhood, expatriation and naturalization,--had been forgotten when in 1896 William Ewart Gladstone published his confessions...