Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost a hero and heroine to the London stage; and they have lost Jess, but somehow the corporate ghost of "The Good Companions" lives on and is not to be laid without special attention from the playwright. The audience never knows what happens to the old veterans. Instead, the curtain falls on Jess as he starts off for Canada, saw and hammer in hand, for new adventure...
Composer Wagner, had he been there, might have wondered why his directions for moving scenery in the Transformation Scene were ignored and the Transformation music played before a closed curtain. Director Herbert Witherspoon could have told him: to cinema-bred patrons, Director Witherspoon thought, Herr Wagner's elaborate device to indicate motion would have appeared quite "childish...
...last week 8,000 people jammed the Trocadéro Auditorium. Huge banners strung around the balconies proclaimed that 1,043 delegates from peace societies in 30 lands had been gathered by the International Union of League of Nations Associations into this, a monster Peace & Disarmament Conference, an unofficial curtain-raiser for the League's World Disarmament Conference in Geneva next February. The trouble with last week's well meaning "conference"' lay not among the 1,043 "delegates," 100% pacifists all, but in the fact that anyone willing to buy a ticket could attend...
...this point Producer Gilbert Miller steps out in front of the curtain and pays a somewhat backhanded compliment to his audience. He says that he has asked Herr Molnar to write a more enlightening sequel for the U. S. edition of the play. The sequel shows the characters ten years later. Lu has married. Whom? Naturally the last one of the six male characters you would expect...
...which opens in a vacant store, boldly advertised as an "appeal to justice" or a "lesson in morality." Usually the pictures are unpublished newsphotos of current crime. The patron may be lured in by "free admission," then coaxed to pay 25^ to see an extra-ripe display behind a curtain; or he may be held up at the exit to contribute to a "fund for the impoverished victims." Into such a "crime prevention" exhibit on Los Angeles' South Main Street two months ago walked one Hugh Plunkett. On the wall he found photographs of the body of his late...