Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other cocks, conquistadors. Programs, chiefly of native and Italian opera, rustle. In La Colon's unique gallery, sacred to unattended women, the fair sit sequestered, safe. In the huge "mourning boxes," equipped with iron screens, the rich lounge in privilege. One can peer out, not in. El telon (curtain) rises...
...Sept. 1, the anthracite coal fields of Northeastern Pennsylvania become the scene of a brief coal-strike and last week no one expected more than the briefest of curtain-raisers?statistics will show...
...that they were comfortable, and that the daughter was not used to house work. Whereupon the girl, so shamed by these activities, renounced her outing in the country, deserted the lunchbox on the table and went in for a good cry. Father finally fitted things together for the final curtain...
...week, Grenville Collins, producer of Sun-Up, Lula Vollmer's play of the Carolina Mountains which has an all-American cast,, was called to the telephone by the Lord Chamberlain's Department and asked to provide boxes for the King and Queen that evening. Shortly before the curtain rang up, their Majesties, accompanied by an ample suite, entered the theatre, occupied three left-hand boxes. They stayed to the end of the performance* joined in the ovation given to Miss Lucille Laverne, who played the leading role, made a quiet exit as the audience was kept at attention...
After the final curtain fell on the first performance, Miss Pinchot and Lady Diana were called out again and again. Miss Pinchot, a slender, vigorous nun, was a rare contrast to the stolid Teutonic actress Sari Fedak, whose interpretation is more familiar to European audiences...