Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terse way of signifying to each other their individual opinions of a play. An upward gesture of the head and a horizontal movement of the hand mean "It's in." If the hand swoops downward and the head wryly wobbles from side to side. "It's terrible." Following the curtain of The Perfect Marriage, hands swooped...
...buys the von Degenthal castle at an auction and plans to modernize it into an apartment hotel with the count for manager and his valet (Charles Ruggles) for maitre d'hotel, the inevitable alliance between Marshall and Maritza develops without further impediment. Typical shot: Maritza peeping out behind a curtain while Marshall superciliously accepts a stogie from her father...
...lavishly mounted in all of its fourteen scenes,--scenes which range from a salon of ill-fame in the Ziegfold manner to an ethereal ballet in the Garden of the Palace Luciennes. The play tells only the happy hours in the rise of the milliner Jeanne; and as the curtain falls, she is still The DuBarry, mistress of her fate and of her king...
Commencing with the coming production, the Committee has decided to preface all future pictures with a short curtain-raiser. The first one to be shown will be a short Paramount film showing many of the historical places of Paris. The next picture will be presented on Thursday and Friday, December 15 and 16. The title of the movie has not yet been announced...
...curtain falls on an admittedly awkward solution, but this is a minor matter. The anti-climactic nature of any "happy ending" romantic story is inherent. The third act would never be criticized but for the fact that it suffers in comparison to the ecstatic rush of the first two. Bluntly put, "The Perfect Marriage" was delightful. One leaves the theatre in the glamorous mood that marks the romanticist's tempestuous existence...