Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ghastly corpse sprawls on the floor, a curious dagger still quivering in its side. The wall-safe gapes open−gone the twin heirloom emeralds, gone the royal Russian ruby. A slip of a girl cowers by the curtain, hand to throat, wide eyes glued to the horrid spectacle. Thunderous knocking at the door−the police! Quavering housekeeper opens; gusty storm blows her grey wisp of hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their...
...policemen, acting upon a court order which temporarily restrained the producers from exhibiting the piece, appeared at the theatre while the play was in progress. Their captain, one Layne, leaped upon the stage with a cry that the curtain be rung down. He was rewarded by impolite and illbred hoots from the gallery, by blows and shouts from the actors. Even the producer and his lawyers flocked about Captain Layne, threatening lawsuits. They attempted to make speeches but were pulled roughly from the stage. Ann Davis, leading lady, attempted to make a speech but swooned when prevented and was later...
Ellen Terry was born, as it were, between an exit and a curtain call, while her mother and father were playing in Coventry. At eight she made her debut as Mamillius in The Winter's Tale, a performance witnessed with apparent pleasure by Queen Victoria. When Ellen Terry was twice as old she married the then famed Painter Watts. He divorced her when she had borne two children to Charles Wardell whom she later married. After that Ellen Terry went into retirement whence she was rescued by Charles Reade. From this time, her stage career grew to its zenith...
Skidding slid into Manhattan via Pasadena, where it had been subjected to an amateur performance. On the opening night, its author who rejoices in the name of Aurania Rouverol, made a demure speech before the curtain, saying how surprised she was that Broadway producers should have interested themselves in her homely frivolities...
...house, El Teatro Colon, in Buenos Aires, glittered as if with a luminous frost. At 9 o'clock, when the curbs outside it were populated with chauffeurs, wrapped in long coats, music began in El Colon. Tullio Serafin raised his baton, the violins began a soft prelude and the curtain rose upon Aida, a scene of warm sands and tropical trees...