Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Someone suggested to Lash that the way to make money was to paint theatre drop curtains with a scene in the middle and advertisements along the edges, such as European music halls then used. U. S. theatre managers, however, did not like them. Thereupon Lash had the further extraordinary idea of painting the advertisements in the middle of the curtain, as though they were signboards in his landscape. Within a year he, his father and brother had sold one of the curtains to nearly every music hall in California, set out to cover the U. S. Presently, Lee Lash...
...Girl in the Fish Bowl, In the intermissions of the Casino floor show Miss McCully slipped off her dancing costume, seated herself on a seashell chair in a cubicle off the bar, with a silken "seaweed" laprobe over her knees. In front of Miss McCully was a curtain, in front of the curtain a tank of water, in front of the tank oglers. When Miss McCully raised the curtain her image, three inches high, was reflected by a system of mirrors into the bowl. Miss McCully could hear her audience plainly, see them hazily through the water. "Once," said...
...most momentous event of her day is the decision as to whether she will order turbot or sole from the fish man. An almost accidental kiss from her sister's fiance makes her marriage suddenly seem so woefully unromantic that Caroline goes into hysterics. The final curtain does not indicate that the Allertons' domestic problems have been solved but Caroline has learned the lesson of acceptance...
...When the curtain goes up at 8.30 o'clock tonight at Brattle Hall on the Welsh kitchen interior of Richard Hughes play "A Comedy of Good and Evil," it will mark both its American premier and the fiftieth production of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...half of Ben Bernie's orchestra in the movie, Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees on the stage hardly shone in unrivalled brilliance. But Rudy did have a very excellent mimie with him, who stole the show, and must have exasperated his master by his innumerable encores and curtain calls. The luke-warm so-whatness of it all cheered the chippies in the third gallery; all grapefruit aside, the lay of last minstrel was more salivary than sexy...