Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain-raiser the bill includes The Pilgrimage, a character study of small town life in France by Charles Vildrac. It was agreeable and excellently acted...
...endless curtain speeches at the recent opening of the new Repertory Theatre, someone dropped a remark to the effect that Shakespeare and Sheridan remained always true to their art, and never lowered themselves by writing down to popular taste. Giving currency to such an idea is surely unfortunate, particularly at this time. Few play-wrights have even gauged the market with greater acumen than these two: and few ever wrote more distinctly to please the common man. It is greatly to be regretted that a play like "The School for Scandal" which was written originally for the entertainment...
...cast into eclipse by the elaborate ceremony of dedication. There were times when the atmosphere became oppressively like that of high school graduation exercises. At the close of the first act J. Weston Allen of the Board of Trustees for the Jewell Repertory Fund, Inc., appeared before the curtain and described in a deep and sonorous monotone the achievements and aspirations of the Repertory Theatre. Then His Honor, the Governor, was introduced from one box, and His Honor, the Corporation Counsel of Boston, from the other, and the two eminent gentlemen rivalled each other in intoning pleasing and congratulatory nothings...
...maid and man. The Lord hopes to secure the lady for himself. Failing in his bluntly amorous attack, he sets his servant the task of seducing and humiliating her. In the process the slightly battered courtesan and the discreetly handsome manservant fall in love and dash off, as the curtain falls, to a London marriage altar...
...curtain raiser for the football game at Princeton, the Crimson polo quartet will face the Orange and Black horsemen in the final contest of this year's Big Three fall polo series. The game will take place outside the walls of the Palmer Stadium...