Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chewing a cigar, shaving, and saying "hot-cha-cha-cha" all at the same time may be hard for modest people, but not for Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante for that was just what he was doing in his dressing room at the Colonial Theatre last night ten minutes before the curtain for "Red, Hot, and Blue" went up and the Crimson reporter walked...
...reads M. Jas. McGranaghan, Attorney at Law. He practices law from 9 to 12 each morning, chiropractic from 2 to 6 each afternoon, will take a case involving either profession at any hour. When he stops being a lawyer he lays aside his cigar, steps back of a curtain, puts on a black dressing gown edged with white...
While first-night crowds jostled London bobbies outside the Adelphi Theatre, behind the curtain the milling cast of Trans-atlantic Rhythm threatened a walk-out unless Producer James Paul ("Jimmy") Donahue Jr., 23-year-old 5-&-10? heir, paid their back salaries. Though she claimed she was owed $7,250 herself, up sprang Mexican Actress Lupe Velez, crooned Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life to the fretful chorines, persuaded them to put on the $110,000 revue without pay. The show...
...Kettering to investigate. Most of the subsequent exhibits are Kettering's reports, but there are also police files on the individuals involved, photographs of the scene of the crime and of the passengers on the yacht, letters found in staterooms, a small sample of a blood-stained chintz curtain, a burnt match and some hair...
...bearing such legends as: "You Pay $10 for Lounging Pajamas of which $1.98 goes for Taxes," "Hidden Taxes, like a Thief in the Night, steal the Wealth and Credits of a Nation," "The Joke's on You, Fellow Taxpayer, You're paying too much for Government." The curtain falls on this incredibly vulnerable political tableau with one beauteous young model mincing off stage in a barrel, accompanied by the sign IF THE NEW DEAL WINS. To illustrate IF THE NEW DEAL LOSES, the young Republicans produce a second model richly clad in evening gown and white fur cape...