Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...odds of youth and love, his young daughter. For his motives, see Freud. The play has a certain intensity of gloom, but much of its force is lost in clumsy ambiguity. However, it permits Miss Bette Davis to do an effective bit of acting as the daughter. For a curtain-raiser there is Eugene O'Neill's Before Breakfast. This is a one-act play with a single character-an embittered wife up to her ears in woe. It is one of Mr. O'Neill's earlier works and has all of his early melancholy weight...
...current presentation at the Majestic Theatre has both features. Balieff is again before the curtain, speaking in English more broken than any that has been heard in many months. Each scene is introduced by a few words from this great round face, and the applause greeting its appearance before each selection is quite as loud as that which closed the preceding scene...
...earthly love to it but is unappeased. In the end he gives himself to this new deity, the dynamo, only to be thrown back lifeless, so far as this world is concerned. Or has he just begun to live? O'Neill begs the question with his final curtain...
Philip Merivale uses his engaging shamble and deep, even resonant voice in the same ways that favored "The Road to Rome". His showman's speech before the curtain was lightly and beautifully done. Guy Standing put patchicolored Harlequin up beside the other two leading parts with a smooth and restrained performance. The principle of return dominates "The Jealous Moon" as it did "Prunella", the dean of all whimsicalities and most of Barrie. Shabby Pierrot, tended by the lustreless Vermilia for whom he once left Columbine, wears a flannel muffler as he sits in the garden where love had been...
...Quick curtain! For Politician Herriot, a staunch Republican, even a Socialist, does not quite dare to write the inevitable epilogue-Napoleon's reconquest of France...