Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yellow curtains folded. A moment of silence, then storms of applause and 37 curtain calls. No one fled for his limousine. This ovation was sincere. Critics hailed a triumph: The Henchman, they said was more than the greatest U. S. opera; it took rank with the great music of the world. Though Composer Taylor showed traces of Wagnerian influence, his music held enough ingenuous wealth to need no comparison, to point to far greater possibilities of creation...
...Miss Millay (Mrs. Eugen Jan Boissevain), blond and sprightly in crimson and gold Florentine brocade with a long train, burst out after the curtain calls: "No one sleeps tonight! It is our New Year's!" She had worked steadily, through illness, for two years...
...curtain painting, representing Washington taking command of the Continental Army on Cambridge Common, has just been installed in the University Theatre...
...curtain is an original oil painting by Claxton Byron Moulton, and is in effect a huge tapestry, measuring 33 feet in width by 17 feet in height...
...where should suspicion light but upon the ruddy thatch of Herbie Salute, the only adult member of the community with hair to match? Herbie is reduced to lonely bachelordom for one act, but absolution and a lucky horse bring health, wealth and wisdom in time for the last curtain...