Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain rose, the lights went...
This year, in the exhibition which opened at the Waldorf last week, everything submitted at curtain time had been accepted. Many of the paintings would hardly, however, be seen elsewhere than at the Independent's tableau. Wandering through the labyrinth of cubist, futuristic, abstract, satirical, constructionistic, or caricaturistic themes, spectators were impressed with the thought that each of these artists had expressed himself with no fear of jury. To be seen were...
...name, Madame X. He is on the point of vanquishing her when he discovers she is his own mother. The climax is heavily emotional. Since first seen 18 years ago, it has never failed to draw tears. With this play, Miss Frederick came before her English audience. When the curtain was rung down, women were seen weeping-almost hysterically. Pauline Frederick has a low, beautiful voice, dark, tragic eyes, a well-proportioned figure, slightly more matronly than it was a few years ago when she was a symbol of beauty. In cinema she has recently been cast as the suffering...
...sparkling play is Laetitia McDonald's (Mrs. Wallace Irwin) "Lady Alone". During the first two acts the audience wonders when the real plot is going to begin and then in the very well done third act, finds that the action has apparently been progressing all the time. The final curtain is a genuine surprise to anyone who has taken the play as a polite little society drama in which the heroine would eventually discover that cats who walk alone often grow weary. If Nina had returned to her diamond-in-the-rough Mr. Brett the result would be more soothing...
...touching a clear note-a misty whitethorn treble, superstitious minors, full-throated, Beowulfian bass. Had the Metropolitan singers at last fortnight's premiere (TIME, Feb. 28) only recited these lines, there must still have been an impressive part of the long hush, the volleying applause and the 37 curtain calls that acclaimed "the greatest U. S. opera...