Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play presents the most complicated plot in town. A loves B who loves C who loves D, who has been found dead. Little by little, each member of the cast is forced to reveal what he or she knows of the death. On the surface, as the curtain rises, the Priestley puzzle-pieces are good companions. They are not when the final curtain rings down. The cast of this extremely talky but interesting tour de force includes Colin Keith-Johnston (the terrier-like Captain Stanhope of Journey's End) and caustic, statuesque Jean Dixon (Once In A Lifetime, June...
...Author! We want the author!" cried the Abbey Players' audience. They got him. As the curtain fell on his one-act play, famed William Butler Yeats, 67, a portly, grey-haired gentleman, stepped upon the stage. Then one great Irishman spoke briefly about another. The spirit of Swift, Poet-Senator Yeats explained, still broods over the Emerald Isle. The tragedy and wisdom of Swift permeate, he feels, the Irish character. That was what he had tried to get at in his play. He thanked one & all for their attention, left the theatre as the curtain rose on Synge...
...tragedians exchange limpid banalities: "The seasons are changing; they say there'll be palm trees someday where the Empire State Building is. ... Girls of 14 today behave just as if they were 30. ... I love dogs. You grow just as attached to them as if they were children. . . ." Curtain...
Hollis-"Pinafore." Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operatta flawlessly executed by the Civic Light Opera Company. "Trial by Jury" for a curtain raiser...
...first play. While the rest of the U. S. was buckling into the machine that was to send A. E. F. divisions catapulting into France, seven Vassar girls were whispering and giggling over their parts. On the much-rehearsed night Authoress Millay played the Princess, took many a curtain call. Next year, as a real grown-up actress, she played the same part in Manhattan's arty Provincetown Playhouse. Life began to go fast for Authoress Millay. She lost the manuscript of her play, was too busy to bother about it. Thirteen years later she found it again, among...