Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drama which unfolds upon the stage the theory that that erudite Elizabethan, Francis Bacon (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans), was the real author of plays now attributed to William Shakespeare. The stalls were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling to lend his name to the immortal works of lordly Francis Bacon...
...Mack or Sergeant Michael Devlin as he is called in the play-bill, was a fussy and bumptious redcoat, though shrewd, daring and romantic withal. He was making love to dope flend's little sister as the curtain fell after all the villians were on their way to the gallows. "The Scarlet Fox," excepting several ridiculous moments of April-fooling, is a pretty fair cock-and-bull dream. In it you may enjoy some unbelievably veracious acting by Miss Marie Chambers as the chatelaine of a Canadian bagnlo; by Mr. Sam Lee, as a canny Chinaman, and by Mr. Sweeney...
Haiti is a quiet island again now, a place in which infinitely indolent, ill-natured Negroes move slowly about their business. It would be incredible that wars had ever been waged under that muffling sky, as heavy as a curtain, that a splendid emperor had ruled the ruinous country- were it not for the fortress which still stands up on the hilltop, a black fist against the sky, the citadel of Christophe, the monument of a man born no one knows where, mysteriously named, a slave and a king, whose enemies defeated him. There is a rumor that Christophe with...
...collection are several examples of textile work, presented by Charles B. Hoyt. This includes embroidery work of Turkey, Algeria, and Bokhara, the latter famous for its rugs. A section of an old Algerian curtain, purple netting on a dark background, is one of the finest specimens in the bizarre exhibit...
...opera singer's offspring. To Sir Basil's further chagrin, the U. S. illegitimate, whose coy and daring cajoleries have made her his "favorite little bastard," falls in love with his solicitor; when she has achieved her father's consent to their marriage, she calls the curtain down by prettily observing: "Well, anyway, it will be the first wedding in this family...