Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...packages of patented kindling coal, climbed the outside of the Reichstag building at 9 p. m. and entered a balcony window of the deputies' restaurant. He lit one box of the kindling coal, threw it on a table behind the bar. Next he set fire to a plush curtain, a couple of table cloths and his own shirt. In the men's washroom he had apparently no trouble in causing a pile of used towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that the main fire was started neither in the washroom...
...tribulations of adolescence. Those who do not like it may say that the only reason the play is set in 1906 is to give some actors a chance to wear funny automobile costumes. They will complain that the play is far too long (it has an 8:15 curtain), that nothing happens. Dissenters, however, will be in the minority. At the close of its Manhattan premiere, Ah Wilderness! was cheered to the rafters...
...aged and very competent variety stars of another day. Emma Francis, at 63, cartwheels fealty; and the composer of the St. Louis Blues plays that fine lament in the sole nonspecial arrangement. There are more, all delightful: unfortunately, there is also an impresario, who delivers a long and mandlin curtain lecture and is generally intolerable. Mr. Sevitsky plays Gilbert and Sullivan with spirit, there is a Popeye, but no Mickey Meuse...
...Anita, who had come for a rest and to ponder a divorce. Several exciting events disturbed their tropical romance: David nearly drowned trying to rescue a man he despised; Anita's husband shot and blinded himself. But a hurricane made all clear: Author Burt rings down a rosy curtain on his lovers and their island. The tale is entertaining but seriously intended, carefully but (at times) garrulously written. In real life people never talk so wordily to their point; implicit in Author Burt's novels is the conviction that talk is important. A satire on U. S. cultural...
...explain the theft and return of a rare volume from a museum. Mixed identity and murder place in the action, as does a vital clue dated four centuries ago. The motive is explained after the solution is reached, and the supreme greatness of Lane is shown as a final curtain. THE PUZZLE OF THE PEPPER TREE- Stuart Palmer-Crime Club ($2). Vacationing on Catalina Island, School-Teacher Hildegard Withers follows her hunch about death in an airplane. Without Oscar Piper by her side, with a casual police and an earthquake to hinder, Miss Withers emerges triumphant. THE CASE...