Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vocally Kirsten Flagstad's performance last week was the best that has been heard in Manhattan for many a year. The audience cheered her at every curtain call and critics fairly wallowed in superlatives. The amazing part of her success was that she had never sung the rôle before, never had an orchestra rehearsal, never practiced with any member of the cast. Withal she seemed sure and confident on the stage. Her strong rich voice was expressive in every phase, her gestures admirably restrained. Most critics led their readers to believe that her interpretation was practically perfect...
...lights he tricked them into his cellar when they appeared at his manse in search of the loot he took from them. With the culprits incarcerated below stairs, His Lordship has time to disentangle a pair of lovers from the plot, send them off toward the altar before the curtain falls on this amusing dramatic puffball...
...last time she told the story was at a gathering in the Manhattan studio of an etcher where Nunsoe Due de la Terrace had not only had his portrait etched but where he himself unveiled the work by yanking a rubber mouse attached to the cord attached to the curtain on the easel (TIME, Dec. 17)Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen's unofficial name is Duke. Last week, after reluctantly dismissing Greyhound Southball Moonstone, Collie Bellhaven Black Lucason, Sealyham Gunside Babs of Hollybourne and Pomeranian Wonder Son, Judge Alfred B. Maclay ordered Duke and Mrs. M. Hartley...
Death is the final curtain to every man's performance, but sometimes it would be more decent, more dramatic to ring it down beforehand. The applause for Napoleon's last bow was at Waterloo, not on St. Helena. But the story of Napoleon's slow fattening for death, anti-climactic though it seems to his career, is a tragi-comedy in itself. Author "Wilson Wright" (William Reitzel) has made the most of it, re-stirring the teacup-tempest with an impartial spoon. From contemporary, controversial accounts of Napoleon's dying days he has pieced together...
...next six weeks before the curtain rises on a finished production will be taken up with whipping the show into shape and drilling the cast and chorus in their roles. So far no name has been chosen for the successor of "Hades! The Ladies!" But Theodore Viehman of Pittsburgh has been put in charge of the rehearsals and William Holbrook of New York will coach the chorus, which turns out a week from today for its first practice in intricate dance steps and formations...