Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fangled neuroses. To Tony Buckram women are attracted as moths to a candle. He himself burns with a cold flame. He likes women and is no pervert, but they seem to him dreadfully rapacious, scarifying. Tony has had a queer, handicapped upbringing, on which Author Marlow raises the curtain little by little as the story goes on. A child when the War began, he was old enough to feel but not understand what it meant when his parson father was ostracized and persecuted because he was against the War, when his soldier brother, not much older than Tony, shot himself...
...justice can in no way condone the immoral means of the "Watch and Ward" to put an end to Immorality. Mr. Delacey now stands acquitted and his accusers sufficiently stigmatized in the eyes of the world. The only hope remaining out of the whole mess is that the curtain has finally been rung down--on the "Dunster House Bookshop Case" and on the "Watch and Ward...
...went broke running a garage. Now he has a chauffeur, a cabin in the San Jacinto Mountains, can make up like Douglas Fairbanks. He dresses foppishly, is fussy about his household arrangements, prefers maids to men servants. Some of his other pictures were A Tailor Made Man, Behind That Curtain, Romance of the Rio Grande...
...again, Sissy and Queenie are loth to admit publicly their acquaintanceship with Rosie and the spangled past. But after Sissy's daughter marries a musicomedian, and after Sissy's husband admits clandestine friendship for the free-and-easy Rosie, and after Patchogue society ostracizes Sissy's entire household, the curtain bangs down on a scene of beer-drinking good-fellowship between the aging handmaidens of Buffoonery...
...result of any inadequacy of the "First Part," but by the mediocre character of the "Olio" (vaudeville). Producer Kilpatrick's Olio contained a series of antediluvian skits which included a ventriloquist, a female impersonator and some more singing, performed before a splendid example of early American opera-house curtain which bore advertisements for a patent electric belt, a dry goods store, and Mike's saloon. By far the best act in the Olio was not in the oldtime minstrel tradition, but bore the stamp of the modern night club. It was provided by Messrs. Sidney Easton and Bert...