Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Final and important departure of Mr. Shaw's Bury the Dead from Mr. Chlumberg's Miracle at Verdun is the Brooklynite's scornful refusal to lead his cadavers back to the grave as the cynical Austrian did. On the contrary, the hopeful curtain of Bury the Dead falls on men marching off the battlefields...
...When the curtain rises in Sanders Theatre on April 15, those in the audience will soon realize it is the rare wine, the sparkling champague of other days that is being tasted, rather than the heavy bodied liqueurs which are usually expected from classicists. Indeed, the presentation for wide-spread attention of the lighter, the more pleasant, the human side of those who strolled by the Tiber is a laudable endeavor, "quo quiddem opere quid potest esse pracclarius...
...First she was Violetta in La Traviata, sacrificing her happiness on the plea of the elder Germont who was Tibbett bewigged. At the end she was graceful Manon, beguiling Tenor Richard Crooks until he gave up all thought of becoming a cleric. With what appeared to be the final curtain the audience was on its feet wildly cheering. But there was more to come. Stage had been set for the garden scene in Traviata. Flowers were everywhere. While members of the company stood by respectfully, Bori received rich tributes. In behalf of 200 friends, Mrs. Vincent Astor gave...
President Jonas Lie won a gold medal for himself with a picture of Maine fishing boats in a rising mist entitled The Curtain Rises...
...final curtain sent autograph-hunters scurrying around to the narrow stage entrance where one of the few to be admitted was Louise Jones, a gaunt, middle-aged blind woman from Kansas City who plays the violin, runs a beauty shop and keeps scrapbooks of Grace Moore press clippings. Miss Jones had never heard her idol in opera before. But she had sat through 40 showings of One Night of Love, a record bettered, according to Grace Moore, only by a Welshwoman whom she met in London last summer. The Welshwoman, aged 76, had seen the cinema 76 times...