Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whimsical title "Madame Axel from Greece," the brothers Minsky no doubt felt their battle to be half won, and with characteristic lavishness they have placed another brilliant and scintillating extravaganza before the public. Of Greece or the Grecian damsel aforementioned there is not the slightest mention once the curtain has risen -- but the title is a good one, and it has a flavor all its own. This flavor is heightened by the customary sale during the intermission of artistic booklets ("the raciest, spiciest little novelty we've set at your disposal in a long time, gentlemen") and is lent sweetness...
Producer Joe Losey from New York who has been assigned the duty of getting the play on the stage was upset over the action of Radcliffe in the matter but anticipated no difficulty in whipping the cast into shape in time for the opening curtain on May 2. There has been no new casting since the ban on Radcliffe girls but rumor has it that several debutantes who were in early tryouts might be recruited to fill the parts...
...curtain rises on the local baseball season this afternoon when the Varsity nine engages the veteran Boston University Terriers on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock...
...Chicago's tragedy the curtain went up last week when attorneys for Dr. Clarence Boren & wife of Marinette, Wis., both of whom had stayed at the Congress Hotel and had contracted dysentery, filed the first suit resulting from the epidemic. It asked $300,000 damages each from Dr. Bundesen and the Congress. The charge : To protect his reputation and its financial interests Dr. Bundesen and the hotel had "wilfully and wantonly" sup pressed news of the epidemic. In defense, publicity-loving Dr. Bundesen pointed only to the following statement by Dr. Roscoe R. Spencer of the U. S. Public...
...Cookesville boys in a brutally realistic first act; the race-prejudiced crowd in the courtroom; two foul-tongued prosecuting attorneys who denounce "Jew money from New York." After listening to Lawyer Rubin's solemn summation, the jury goes off-stage to bring Playwright Wexley's last curtain down with a burst of obscenely scornful laughter. A better playwright than most polemists, Playwright Wexley lost his temper in They Shall Not Die. Yet somehow his journalistic vehemence does not ruin his play. Handsomely mounted by the Theatre Guild and fervently acted by an enormous cast, it succeeds...