Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unless it be the backstage of the Woodlawn Neighborhood Playhouse an hour before the opening curtain of The TorchBearers, there is no scene of such dithering excitement as the office of a brand new magazine about to be published by amateurs. The A. S. Gilman Printing Co. of Cleveland gyrated last week when a group of smart young people of the town brought forth the first issue of Parade, a "social, semi-humorous and pictorial" weekly...
...window had no light-tight curtain. In the U. S. Miss Guinan "cannot sleep" unless her bedroom window is hung with blankets or the glass painted black. At inflexible agents of the Surete Generale (Secret Service) la grosse jemme hurled piercing shrieks?in vain...
...Marion, Ohio, on June 16th according to yesterday's newspapers, the curtain rises on the last act of an American tragedy. On that day President Hoover and ex-President Coolidge, together with the chiefs of the Republican hierarchy, will gather beside the $800,000 marble mausoleum of Warren Gamaliel Harding for the somewhat belated dedication of the late President's tomb. The same editions carry the announcement of the day's decision by the United States Supreme Court denying ex-Secretary Fall's appeal from his prison sentence...
Revived last week in Manhattan was the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta The Mikado, presented by Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company. Oldtimers in the audience flinched when the curtain rose to reveal a meaningless shadowgraph sequence of Japanese town life, a very un-Gilbertian interpolation. But all was set right again when Howard Marsh stepped out and began to sing "Gentlemen, I pray you tell...
Officers of the Harvard Dramatic Club have announced the election of 22 candidates to membership in the organization as a result of the recent production of "B. J. One." Announcement of the election was made following the final curtain in Jordan Hall Saturday evening. The initiation banquet will take place later in the month...