Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magistrate nor the prosecutor became at all interested? . . Was the letter written and transmitted? Was a reply received? To these unavoidable questions we get no answer. The Gay-pay-oo could not permit the prosecutor any indiscretion within that sphere over which it has been compelled to draw a curtain of silence...
...Petrified Forest (by Robert Sherwood; Gilbert Miller, Leslie Howard, Arthur Hopkins, producers). When, in the first 30 minutes of a show, four men appear carrying sub-machineguns, a spectator may be pretty sure that something fairly exciting is going to happen. When, 30 minutes before the curtain is to be rung down, the hero makes an arrangement with one of the gunmen to kill him before they leave, a spectator may be forgiven for twisting his program completely out of shape...
...alert Reader Robbins, credit for neat metaphor-mixing, equal to TIMES inept: "Last week . . . they rang their curtain up again and set out on a new tack...
...raggedy pig-tailed Gretel was Soprano Queena Mario who in California once sang Micaela to Farrar's Carmen. Farrar recalled how at that performance she had gone to the young singer's dressing-room and fairly dragged her out to bow before the curtain. Instead of a long-winded analysis of Humperdinck's music, Farrar sang the children's prayer, playing her own accompaniment. Listeners were amazed at the freshness of her voice...
...curtain time drew near photographers mounted the stage to snap the packed, hand-picked audience. Some went backstage to get Einstein pictures. Outside six policemen held back a surging crowd of curious. The curtain went up on a stage empty but for a blackboard covered with equations chalked in different colors. Applause began. In the midst of it Dr. Einstein ambled from the wings, his halo of white hair glowing in the dim light...