Word: curtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abbott produced, directed, and adapted the show; any fear the he runs backstage to let down the curtain may be banished, since "The Boys from Syracuse" will have a prosperous life...
...Broadway critics, were slashing the script of Leave It to Me, rushing off to hammer typewriters. While the audience was holding its sides over Act II, Act II was going, bit by bit, into the Spewack wastebasket. While the audience was filing out after the show, behind the curtain the cast was flopping down on the stage before being handed practically new parts and rehearsing them far into the night...
...curtain fell on the regular House grid season yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field as Lowell staged a last quarter scoring spree, counting two touchdowns, which, added to a safety, sank Dunster 14-0. Dick Lewis scored both times for the Bellboys...
...thrilling event for the cast when the curtain finally rises and the play, which is the product of so much work, anxiety, and back-stage drudgery, goes on. And tonight is an auspicious one for the Harvard Debating Council when the curtain rises on inter-House debating. This too, is the product of months, even years of labor and promotion, particularly on the part of Lawrence Ebb, president of the council. It is the high-water mark of Harvard debate in the year that the latter has come into its own, with University sponsorship and an ambitious program of radio...
Such a radical enlargement of the debating fold is ambitious and if it is to succeed, it will require not only the active interest of those 192 men who have already expressed a desire to talk, but also spectator-sympathy from all other students. When the curtain has risen, the play will "take" only if the audience acts, feels, and participates with the cast...