Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rank & file of the performances grew more & more routine and the Metropolitan's name lost much of its luster. The future of opera in Manhattan was unpredictable when the last curtain was rung down on the 1934-35 season...
Impressed by Mr. Odets' previous work, and his audacity in bracketing himself with the late great Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, reviewers settled in their seats at Paradise Lost ready for almost anything. When they rose after the final curtain, none could deny that plenty had happened. Ben Gordon, an Olympic runner, marries a wench who betrays him, gets shot in a holdup. His brother Julie takes three acts to die of sleeping sickness. His sister...
...dreamy designer of pocketbooks whose partner is revealed in rapid succession as a brutal exploiter of his workers, an incipient firebug, an absconder. Half a dozen other characters in Paradise Lost do not get along well either. Nevertheless, Leo Gordon is able to say in a full-length curtain speech that everything is going to be all right now that they have all hit hard pan. "The world's at its morning!" declares...
Original sets by Edward Melcharth, famous London director, will provide a background for Dunster House actors in "Marriage a la Mode" tomorrow night. The production is being managed and directed by Robert Gale Noyes, author and composer of last year's opers and well known for his before-the-curtain talks. A Lawrence Lowell '77, president-emeritus, will be a guest at the House Dinner preceding the play and subsequent festivities...
Last Saturday night the curtain at the Chicago Opera House fell on what was undoubtedly the worst season of opera that a resident Chicago company has ever presented. For a pageant finale there was Respighi's new La Fiamma, with massive choruses, lavish orchestration, an impassioned, queer-grained heroine who is burned at the stake for indulging in witchcraft. The heroine was Soprano Rosa Raisa, bluff in acting, uneven in voice. But Raisa, a relic of Samuel Insull's opera days, was an ace compared with the majority of the singers who have appeared in Chicago this season...