Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well aware how much on trial he was, Conductor Barbirolli led off with an ornamental curtain-raiser, Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture. The audience, at once soothed by his meticulous phrasing, his insistence on broad, full tones, was no less impressed by his physical resource. Planting his feet widely, chin down, Conductor Barbirolli swayed his shoulders delicately through the lyrical passages, hunched forward to demand a pianissimo, twitched his kinetic torso and wagged his flying tails to call for quickened tempi. He guided the orchestra carefully through the tenebrous but imitative twilights of a symphonic poem by Arnold...
...glittering income promised by President Berzelius ("Buzz") Windrip to every man & woman in the U. S. In the novel, Jessup's daughter avenges her husband's murder by crashing her sport plane into Effingham Swan's transport plane. When the play's last curtain falls she is in a Corpo office on the Canadian border, leveling a pistol at Swan...
Signals for Curtains Up! sounded last week almost simultaneously in San Francisco and Chicago for another opera season. San Francisco's curtain-raiser was a smoothly-run performance of Halevy's La Juive, in which Tenor Giovanni Martinelli surpassed himself as the bearded old Jew while that plump, dependable songstress, Elisabeth Rethberg, took the part of the heroine who is finally plopped into a caldron, boiled in oil. In Chicago, Soprano Rosa Raisa was condemned to sizzle at the stake in Respighi's La Fiamma, proved her popularity by getting loud applause when neither her singing...
...again. Philip Merivale and Gladys Cooper who play Mr. and Mrs. Hilton start the morning with a kiss. During the day each has his brief lapee of fidelity, though never of real love. But at the end of the day they confess all to each other, and the final curtain drops as they are affectionately holding hands between their twin beds. This section of the plot is the only complete cycle in the play. Catherine Hilton, the elder daughter, is last seen weeping from the bruises to her unreflected love, while Martin Hilton ends us definitely in love, but with...
...Dodds' method of broadcasting was as unique as the proclamation itself. He enclosed the notice in an envelope with the football tickets. In such a place one might expect the warning that, "Miss Fontanne is on the stage at the rise of the curtain and the audience is earnestly requested to be seated in time," but not a request that "all persons refrain from the use of alcoholic liquors while attending athletic contests." Still it was an easy way in which to breathe the word around, and when the notices have been thrown away with the envelopes they will...