Word: curtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks from tonight the curtain will go up on the Metropolitan's premiere performance in the 1938 Boston season. And it is with a shout of joy that many of us will greet that opening opera, Verdi's "Otello." For rare indeed are the opportunities of American audiences to hear this masterpiece of the Italian composer's prime...
Chamberlain Scores. As a curtain raiser to the Congress City palaver, Mr. Gandhi, in his political capacity of Boss, fortnight ago ordered the native premiers of the United Provinces and Bihar to resign with their cabinets. They obeyed. The two cabinets were composed of Congress members, and the ostensible reason for Saint Gandhi's orders was the "scandalous action" of the two local British governors in "refusing the advice" of the two premiers that the jails of the United Provinces and Bihar be opened. The refusal was in accord with the safeguarding clause of the Indian Constitution, and fairly...
Under such circumstances, the Congress last week contented itself with passing one big resolution: a blanket rejection of All-India Federation. The United Provinces cabinet who had so defiantly resigned as a curtain raiser, quietly withdrew their resignations as a curtain downer, carried on this week under the British Raj. Dispatches announced that the resigned native cabinet of Bihar, after a little further haggling with their British governor, were also expected to withdraw their resignations. Thus His Majesty's Government, whose game is quietly to keep pressing mercurial Indians into the mold of Sir Samuel Hoare's Constitution...
Casey Jones (by Robert Ardrey; pro duced by The Group Theatre). The Sceneryless-Theatne Movement (Julius Caesar, The Cradle Will Rock, Our Toun) got a smack on the jaw last Saturday when the curtain went up on Casey Jones. There, covering the whole stage and appearing to race through the night, stretched a life-sized, glinting locomotive. The audience let loose a tornado of applause. But the rest of Casey Jones, instead of roaring straight ahead, backed in and out of rail road yards, got shunted off on sidings...
Once Is Enough (by Frederick Lonsdale; produced by Gilbert Miller). Ten minutes after the curtain rose last week on Once Is Enough, nobody in the audience could have sworn that it was not 1928. For a Frederick Lonsdale comedy, full of fishwife manners but ducal breeding, was unhurriedly finding its stride. Not since 1930 (Canaries Sometimes Sing) had a Lonsdale play softly crackled on Broadway, but most of the audience could probably remember Aren't We All?, Spring Cleaning...