Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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brother whom he has never seen, promptly falls into a deep alcoholic sleep. Then he gets a job selling securities, prevents his brother from marrying a young woman of whose shortcomings only the trans-Atlantic relative is aware. At the final curtain, Manhattan has been made a better place to live in by the visiting Englishman. Geoffrey Kerr wrote the play, ably acts the lead, but he is no Wodehouse...
...gesture that completely wins the audience. At the juncture at which the Twentieth century Peter Standish arrives, the stage is darkened, the door opens and a shaft of light reveals the very beautiful Kate Pettigrew, Louise Pressing, sweeping into a superb curtsie to greet her betrothed just as the curtain falls. It is a succession of moments like this that makes "Berkeley Square" so thoroughly entertaining...
Plans for the experimental theater were drawn up this summer by A. L. Love joy, director of the school, and A. P. Segal. They called for a forest age, a curtain less stage, "tormentor towers", placements for lights and light control, storage room, and seating for an audience. Offices for the school, for the director and the art director, and a drafting room were also included...
Because French farce tends to be almost entirely froufrou, the impression of the evening's entertainment is that both pieces are very slight and very stagy. But they are also very pleasant. The curtain-raiser, The Violet, is concerned with the trials of a theatrical casting director who becomes weary of the blandishments and caresses which shameless young women, seeking employment, lavish upon him. Changing places with his composer, he is astonished to find that Ilona Stobri (Ruth Gordon) is attracted to him rather than to the one whom she believes is the director. She gets...
...Chicago the Civic Opera Company did the unusual, chose no well-proven piece for curtain-raiser, no outstanding soprano. For its first night, also Oct. 27, it will present the U. S. premiere of Frenchman Ernest Moret's Lorenzaccio, an adaptation of a carnal plot by Alfred de Musset, with Baritone Vanni-Marcoux singing the title role created by him ten years ago in Paris...