Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Came the night of March 15th. The theatre was packed. In a side box, seated conspicuously in full view of the house, sat Dr. Johnson. As the curtain went up on the first act, Goldsmith sneaked out the stage exit into the Mall where he walked for some time in an agony of apprehension. Coming back at the beginning of the fifth act, he reached the wings just in time to hear a hiss from the audience. He was dropping with alarms at this when the hard-boiled manager came up and said, "Psha, Doctor! don't be afraid...
...orders the little girl brought in. The company sit down to listen to a broadcast of an Albert Hall concert at whose crescendo the anarchists' triggerman will fire his revolver. Good shot: Mrs. Lawrence, in the audience at Albert Hall, watching a gunbarrel emerge slowly from a curtain...
There would also have been a new Cavaradossi, victim of Scarpia's evil plotting, if, as the curtain went up, Tenor Richard Crooks had not been under ether for a serious appendectomy and Oldster Giovanni Martinelli had not rushed on to take his place. A new Tosca at the Metropolitan is bound to be compared with other singers who have made the role seem great. There were people in last week's audience who remembered Milka Ternina, dramatically exciting but plain to look at. Emma Eames had beauty but her emotions were chilled. In pre-War days Olive...
...they flit en masse to the Riviera, where they continue to astound the bourgeois with their wisecracks and giddy japes, indulge in a few harmless bedroom scenes, fall in & out of love, flit back to Paris again and continue their galvanic act until their stage manager's timely curtain. Samples of their epigrammar: "Two gongs don't make a rite." An engagement "is exactly like giving a hungry man a menu and then turning him out of the restaurant." ". . . Genius is merely an infinite capacity for growing pains." Those who know Gertrude Stein's famed motto...
...last the Dramatic Club has come out from behind the curtain of obscurity, subconciousness, and even unconsciousness, and has chosen a play that is amusing, straightforward, and well adapted to the talents of amateur Thespians...