Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perfervid Professor watched with a pleasure even sensuous the slow drop of the curtain and the slow rise of the lights. "Delightful", he murmured, "Delightful." The Person In The Next Seat smiled, revealing bridgework and the brilliance thereof, smiled and nudged the Perfervid Professor...
...Chicago, in the huge Auditorium, occasional playhouse of the Chicago Civic Opera troupe, a resplendent crowd ogled one another, visited back and forth, chatted and chattered. They were waiting for the curtain to rise on the world's premiere of Resurrection, the opera by Franco Alfano based on Tolstoy's pity-evoking novel, the opera personally selected last summer by Mary Garden shrewd in showmanship, for her next important vehicle. The performance was called a triumph...
...curtain will rise tomorrow evening on Pi Eta's sixtieth production, the "Fool for Scandal". The opening performance will be held in the Pi Eta Theatre at 8.15 o'clock...
...libretto for A Light from St. Agnes was taken from a play written and acted by Minnie Maddern Fiske. The theatrical lady placed the scene near her birthplace, in a tough Louisiana town. Toinette (heroine) is the unsavory mistress of Michel, drunken leader of drunks. The curtain rises upon a chapel lit by a rose window and the interior of a hovel. Within the chapel rests the body of Agnes Devereaux, saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when...
Tenor Beniamino Gigli, who has refused all offers to sing over the radio, saying that it would take $50,000 to induce him to broadcast a concert, last week signed a contract to give the Christmas week concert of the Atwater Kent Co., Philadelphia, on Dec. 27. A curtain was held and the audience waited uneasily between the first and second acts of Herodiade at the Chicago Auditorium while call boys went to tell William Beck, baritone, that it was time to go on as Vitellius. Baritone Beck was not to be found in his dressing room. A messenger hurried...