Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forty-fifth annual Spring production, the Harvard Dramatic Club will present "The Watched Pot" by Saki (H. H. Munro) tonight and tomorrow night at Brattle Hall. The play will be in three acts, with the curtain rising at 8.30 o'clock...
...picture will be precoded by a short curtain-raiser, "Carcassonne," and a brief explanatory talk in French by Monsieur Henri Supper, an outstanding rugby player of France. Tickets will go on distribution beginning Monday, April 17 in Robinson Hall Annex, Admission is free but by ticket only...
When midnight came and the Akron remained mute behind a curtain of wind, rain and thunder, Lakehurst tried not to worry. The Akron had ridden worse storms than this one appeared to be. Besides, she was at sea, where an airship belongs; not overland, to be twisted apart by line squalls as was the Shenandoah, or beaten into a hillside, as was Britain's R-101. As for her radio, that could easily go wrong with the atmosphere supercharged with electricity. Not until next day did Lakehurst, and the rest of the world, know what good cause...
...large number of movies in the last few years have stated by portraying life in the open world and have ended tragically by moving the actors to a different set, that of a prison. "Pick Up" reverses the procedure. Yet as the curtain is to be drawn, it gets, into a predicament which is also banal; a melodramatic and implausible trial scene...
...appeared recently in many stage successes. The production, which has had a long stage run in France, contains a typically French theme, and deals with the romantic escapades of a country youth who ascends the ladder of fame as a fashionable hairdresser. Prior to the main picture, a short curtain raiser will be presented...