Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ribs while nobody is looking. Upstairs again for the third act, everybody confesses to be a detective. But one, The Octopus, is not; so he starts killing the others with mystic thunderbolts until an octopus gets him. A terrible noise, like a malignant god stripping his gears, ensues. The curtain goes down, and then up, showing Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Kelly awakening from an alcoholic dream...
...propped up on the stage, a cardboard automobile. To them, this frail vehicle is a symbol for many estimable qualities of stage technique-loud clowning, eccentric costuming, futuristic scenery, boisterous laughter from the actors on the stage-which they, in hypersensitive hauteur, sometimes distrust. As soon as the curtain rose on Jules Remain's "intellectual farce," in France already a minor classic, they knew what to expect. Had usually able Director Richard Boleslavsky made it seem less like a pillow fight, they would have been delighted with this bumptious but bitterly satiric story of a scalawag physician who buys...
Item: One murder as the curtain rises...
...week. She arrived in Atlanta one morning last week, was welcomed at the city hall by Mayor I. N. Ragsdale, then went about her window business-a daily routine of lounging, eating, lounging, dancing with callers, chatting, tidying, lounging. At 9 p. m. she prepared to retire. The curtains of the show window were discreetly drawn. At 9 a. m. next day the curtain parted, and there was Edna Kirby, finishing her toilette, just as if she had been there all night...
...game for 1928 is, after all, completely canceled. Navy announced curtly its football season would wind up Nov. 24 against Princeton. Again sentimentalists started. For the first time in the history of the oldest rivalry in football (51 years) Princeton will meet a college other than Yale in her curtain game. After playing Yale Nov. 17, Princeton will journey to Philadelphia against Navy. Students of the situation noted that the Princeton-Navy agreement carried a clause for two more years, the games to be played in October. Prophecies decreed an Army-Navy game in 1929. Meanwhile Army negotiated with Nebraska...