Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rain clouds rolled back like a grey curtain. The yellow afternoon sun turned the thousand gilded spires of Bangkok into spikes of flame. Along the waterfront, in ferryboats, tugs, launches, sampans and barges, every Bangkokian who could find foothold was wedged, patiently waiting, eyes fixed on the royal yacht Mahachakri as it poked its golden prow toward the landing. The King & Queen of Siam were returning from...
From the rise of the second-act curtain to the end of the play the comedy is delightful. If the romantic moments fail to convince one of the sincerity of Ronnie as much as the "in vino veritas" moments of the drinking scene, it is not entirely the actor's fault. Where Miss Crothers' pen strays from the high road of comedy into her beloved bypaths of sentimentality the play is decidedly less interesting and certainly less well acted. At several points there is the dread possibility that sentimentality may prevail, but by a miracle the demon is kept just...
...allied against him, even his daughter (Maisie Darrell) and his old nurse (Haidee Wright). By the end of Act I he is rushing out into a blizzard crying: "To hell with all women!" At the end of Act II he hurls a lighted lamp at his wife. The final curtain finds him a gibbering, grinning lunatic bound in a strait-jacket...
...morbid though it may be, The Father is an impressive play, intelligently acted. Most Manhattan critics, objecting to Actor Loraine's violent acting, forgot the violence was Playwright Strindberg's. Manhattan playgoers, more impressed, gave the players repeated curtain calls, demanded from tired Mr. Loraine a curtain speech...
...kiddy-car, slides about the deck with evil looks for all. He captures and becomes the friend of a frog, which he keeps in his hat. He carries a cane which has a horn at one end, for no reason. Chased by the mate, he dives behind the curtain of a Punch & Judy show and pokes his shaggy head out in expressions of derision and despair. Groucho Marx makes friends with a gangster, throws a revolver into a pail of water. "It was necessary to drown the gat," he says, "but we saved a little gitten." Later he undertakes...