Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Jane Kingdom (Frances Starr) runs her gardens, chickens and doddering professorial husband satisfactorily, but soon after the curtain rises begins to have trouble with her children. Her daughter Liza (Lila Lee, oldtime cinemactress trying for a legitimate comeback) is a bobbed-haired nymphomaniac consorting with a London gossip writer who carries cocaine and an automatic. And Daughter-in-law Sybil (Frieda Inescort) thinks she is understood only by a vain popular novelist. Shrewd Lady Jane puts Sybil and the novelist in adjoining bedrooms outside which a nightingale is singing. As Lady Jane expected, they take advantage of propinquity...
...model. When a Fox scout saw her picture he arranged a screen test, then a contract. At 15, Jean Arthur went to Hollywood, acted in cinema for nine years, made her stage debut in 1932 as a Hungarian peasant in. Foreign Affairs. Since then she has appeared in The Curtain Rises, Virtuous Husbands, The Man Who Reclaimed His Head...
...Everyone had to haul in his kite. Trix, who had cometted to London as a musicomedy star, went home and contented herself with a soberer Harry. Speculator Samuel took to pushing a cart, selling hot potatoes. Houghtons were sold up, moved away. As Author Hodson brings down a slow curtain on his characters, he leaves them sadder in some ways, wiser in most...
...last saw Othello. Kenneth MacKenna, whose brother. Scene Designer Jo Mielziner, was in the audience, made lago a villain of monstrous subtlety and venom. The Jones' sets, sparkling with Venetian color, were amazingly well handled throughout a one-intermission performance on a stage equipped only with a hand curtain. An audience of 750 which included Cinemagnate Jesse Lasky, Producer Max Gordon. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Campbell (Dorothy Parker), cheered itself hoarse after the performance and then adjourned, like most of the cast, to the barroom of the Teller House next door, to which President Grant once made his way over...
When the billowing white curtain had blotted out land and sky. Researcher Henry G. Houghton Jr. barked an order. Centrifugal pumps sent a high-pressure stream of liquid through the overhead pipe. Its nozzles hissed, and jets of Mr. Houghton's chemical cut into the fog like rapiers. The white sea seemed to divide, roll back like the Red Sea before Moses. Soon the watchers were looking through a half-mile tunnel of clear air, 30 ft. high, 100 ft. wide...