Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restrained piece of acting. So convincing was her drinking of a detested pitcher of porter, so stirring her defense of a browbeaten sister, so moving her portrayal of an invalid who passionately wished but mortally feared to be a wife, that first night spectators yelled "Bravo!" as the final curtain fell.* The supporting cast is capable: Jo Mielziner has mounted the piece as picturesquely as a John Leech drawing. A small Cocker spaniel as Flush behaves admirably...
...Then the curtain went up and soon AÏda, the slave girl, started to sing. Immediately the audience forgot its hostile pashas, thought only of her. After the act she was cheered, and called back a dozen times. So excited was U. S. Minister William M. Jardine that he violated a sacred tradition of the opera house, went back stage to congratulate her. Minister Jardine knew something of her story. Though her immigrant parents had shaken their heads, Anna Turkel had left her home and the seven younger Turkels in Woonsocket. R. I., had gone to Manhattan with...
...usually the case, was superbly sung. Difficult chromatic runs and arpeggios done with the greatest ease, trills and staccati true to pitch (coloraturas are inclined to sing off-key), a high E flat clearly sung, not just peeped?these won her cheers and a dozen or more curtain calls...
...greater triumph was to come in Rigoletto a few nights later. The boxes were filled with fashionable Wednesday-nighters, the house tensely expectant. Soon came the Caro nome aria and Lily Pons stopped the show. Applause lasted ten minutes by the clock. After the second act she had ten curtain calls. After the final curtain 500 yelling enthusiasts stayed 35 minutes, recalled her in all some 30 times. As in Lucia it was her singing not her acting which offered the emotional thrill...
...play, which has come to Boston from New York via the Middle West, is set in the 1840's, on a Russian estate. Virtually no action occurs, and when the play is over, the principal characters are very little changed from what they were at the rise of the curtain...