Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Hodge, actor and writer of his own plays, had just come off the stage after the final curtain of his latest play, "Straight Thru the Door", and was sitting in his dressing room attired in the tuxedo coat and white trousers in which he appeared in his last scene. It really am a rather dry proposition for an interview," he remarked in his quiet way to the scribe who was waiting for him, "but I can at least tell you where I got the basis for my play...
...title poem, "Out of the East" is "a dramatic monologue with stage directions in verse." One is lost in poetic reveries during the stage directions. But the gong sounds, the curtain rises tonight and enchanting woman awaiting love and a lover by the sea. For a man "large and lovely and strong," she gasps. Man comes large and strong. His lovely quality is never revealed, however, for he stayed not long enough. He was too deaf to be lovely and heard not the final gasps of a child-bearing woman smothered in a comforting...
...pursuit of him are two none too desirable females. One is French, correct, cold, a poor mixer. The other has red hair and a reputation tinged to match. She saves her hero's life in time to get the curtain down on an inordinately leaden evening...
...Look closer, and one finds the curtain to be practically an airplane map of Cambridge. There is Massachusetts Hall, there a quadrangle in the Georgian style. The campus of Tait is cloistered. There are ivy-covered towers, containing, by the way, college bells of familiar penetration. It were piddling to find fault because Agassiz Hall has alighted cheek-by-jowl with Holworthy, with no thought of what havoc such change would raise in the architectural scheme of Brattle Stret...
Behold, The Bridegroom. It is customary with playwrights to complete their essays with a curtain. George Kelly has dared to be more complicated. There are many hours conversation and some thought to be expended on this tragedy after the final curtain. It is a play of two people who have been so busy enjoying and acquiring things of the world that something of the spirit has died within them. They fall in love, are both unequal to its challenge. The girl dies, poisoned by her own incapacity; the man stands groping, helpless...