Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suppe (Poet and Peasant Overture) wrote them for Boccaccio, a cluttered comic piece based on the Italian storyteller's love for Fiammetta, bastard daughter of the Duke of Tuscany. But the Metropolitan audience was unusually enthusiastic, broke its rule, stayed almost to a dowager until the final curtain. Soprano Maria Jeritza (Boccaccio) was the magnet for most. She was radiantly fair, displayed calves beyond the dreams of most opera singers. One waltz, compiled by Conductor Artur Bodanzky from Suppe themes, she sang with such lilt that it stopped the show, set many to wishing that she would...
...radical step has been taken in the removal of the usual curtain, a haze of light thrown from the extremities of the stage providing the necessary separation from the audience. These lights will be directed from a control-box in the balcony which has been erected at the rear of the theatre behind the audience, an arrangement so far unique in the history of the stage...
...part (her second off the screen) was only a small one-the naïve daughter of the braggart mayor and his cheap wife. The total effect of the cast was better than any of its parts-a gallery of wretched pantaloons topped off just before the last curtain by the towering, sinister figure of the real inspector general. A few hours before the opening performance, 325-lb. Actor Julian Winter, 39, fought off his wife and father, pushed himself out of an eighth-story window, plunged to his death (just missing Dancer Clifton Webb's chauffeur) because...
...Italian resort, take their children to what is advertised as a sleight-of-hand performance. Before the show is five minutes old, the parents realize they are seeing an exhibtion of hypnotism. Before the evening over the whole audience is under the hypnotist's sway. Before the final curtain murder has been done. But luckily the children think it is all amusing, delightful. A little book-hardly more than a long short story-Mario and the Magician has more in it than many a lengthy novel, told with the insight and artistry that has made Thomas Mann acclaimed...
...With no curtain and little scenery, the play will be produced in pageant form; the several scenes will be distinguished by lowering the lights. Brilliance of costume and of illumination will serve to obtain the desired effects...