Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain went up to the traditional accompaniment of loud tapping on the floor behind the scenes. The first two acts were set in a pleasant home at Auteuil. The last act was set in the dining room of a bourgeois home at Nangis. The stage settings were as good as the average small play; if anything, a little better...
...curtain will rise on the Cercle Francais' new play, "Le Controleur des Wagon-Lits," by Alexander Bisson at 2.15 o'clock in the Fine Arts Theatre tomorrow afternoon. The second performance will be held in the same theatre at 8.15 Wednesday night...
...signal for young men in evening clothes to unhitch the horses of a prima donna's carriage and pull her home themselves. The Chicago enthusiasts stopped short of this. But they held up the performance after she had sung the "Caro Nome," and gave Luella Melius ten curtain calls at the end of the act. Old Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn declared that he remembered only three such scenes in the last 25 years; others compared Miss Melius with Gali-Curci. Even the most reserved could not help agreeing that her voice is very good...
...contemporary of Booth, originally made the hit of his lifetime. The production of "Rip Van Winkle" at the New Repertory Theatre is done with considerable artistry, elaborate and delightful stage effects, excellent music, and harmony in every detail. Yet it drags. It drags interminably. On Monday evening the final curtain was rung down at exactly five minutes of twelve...
...singer unknown to fame, one Richard Bonelli, made his début as Germont Sr. in La Traviata. He proved to have one of those baritone voices that make connoisseurs think of the golden, summery booming of an enormous bee. The audience called him out for endless curtain calls. Said critics...