Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Palmieris (fruit business) are in the $20,000 a year class. The seventeenth century Van Dorns had neglected to purchase a farm in the vicinity of Times Square. So, in this bursting century, young love, eventually, has its way and Mr. Van Dorn makes the best of it. The curtain falls upon a happy conglomeration amidst enthusiastic applause...
Beyond Evil. For the first time in the memory of this generation's playgoers, a play in a first-class Manhattan theatre was booed. After three acts of laughing and derisive whistles the curtain fell. Great and hollow were the catcalls. For this, the evening was memorable...
...commoners shouted and so did even the Duke of this and the Duchess of that. They called her back again and again after each curtain; gave her a riotous ovation when Lord Stanley of Alderly, chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute, presented her with a gigantic floral display that filled the entire stage, a floral kangaroo, emblem of her native Australia in the centre, flanked by British and Australian flags. She tried to thank them: "Covent Garden . . . the dearest place I know . . . my public . . . dear old Austin, who for 36 years has been at the stage door and helped...
...face of his sister, 3, into a last grimace. The woman, one Mrs. M. D. Tilman of Chicago, had finished the bottle herself. She lay dead, face down on a soiled rug, while the breath of a spring evening ruffled her skirt and played with the fringe of the curtain. Clutched in her hand was a copy of Ibsen's A Doll's House...
...Woman. You can always count on the South Seas. You can count on them for about three plays a season in which the hale and handsome hero takes to drink and marries the forgiving and handsome heroine just at curtain fall. To help this one out there is volcanic eruption rivaled only by the passionate eruptions of the manuscript. The acting is all right...