Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Come and look quick. The show will soon shut down for a year. Delectable slums; peep-shows of half-blind women and their broods basting mountainous piles of garments, making artificial flowers, beading gowns, and supported by charity. Take a good look before the curtain is drawn...
...both, is one of the few who have had two plays produced by the Theatre Guild in the same season. His new opus is a pungent satire savagely directed against the popular sentimentality that breathes violet perfume on "mother love." A wit in the audience loudly announced after the curtain line "Now to go home and shoot mother...
...smile with which "Dear Brutus" had once captured gay New York--and then--"But, my dear, you know, I was acting away for all I was worth when I looked around and the curtain had come down. One can not always "strut his hour" not on a Boston stage." The severest critic retreated...
...constancy? queries W. Somerset Maugham in a play for children over sixteen. His heroine, Constance Middleton (Ethel Barrymore), observes her husband's liaisons with an indulgent smile, tacitly assumes the right to go and do likewise -and does. Her husband can take it or leave it. As the curtain falls, he takes it with a hard gulp, while she sweeps off to Italy for a six weeks' amorous sojourn with her bachelor admirer. A daughter is in "infinitely more competent hands," a boarding school. Love had slipped away years before. Playwright Maugham presents what, a decade...
From the moment when this throw back to the Eighteenth Century begins to send laughter into the happy hearts of the better Bostonians to that sudden descent of the curtain which ends the show there in no time when anyone dares to remember that he paid so and so for his ticket. Perhaps Mr. Leo Bulgakov of the Moscow Art Theatre is doing better justice to Gozzi at the Provincetown than could ever be done on the shores of Brattle, but Stark Young would have to admit that this is an improvement over "Brown of Harvard"-with all due justice...