Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the aria E sogno, in which he sets forth his suspicions that his spouse, Mistress Ford, is plotting infidelity with "that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years," Falstaff (Scotti). The heat of his singing had melted his makeup. He had taken numerous curtain calls with Scotti. People were still applauding? Doubtless they wanted the bronze-voiced Italian. He did not know that music lovers, cold-eyed elegants, smug critics alike were shouting through the applause, in the darkness of the house, "Tibbett! Tibbett...
There was a scuffle of feet outside the dressing-room door. A call boy-"Mr. Gatti wants you. Immediately." Young Tibbett grabbed his robe. Gatti-Casazza, famed director of the Metropolitan, smilingly pushed him toward the stage. There, alone, he took his curtain call, bowed again and again. Then the opera was permitted to proceed...
Harlots are the puppets of the piece. Jerry Strong, clubman, wagers he can reform a street walker. In the process, he falls in love with her in time to ring down as tawdry and dishonest a curtain as the Theatre has seen this year...
...tawdry and dishonest a curtain as the Theatre has seen this year...
...only near the final curtain, but throughout the play Mr. Brown displays an irritating amount of slovenliness in his writing. Thus two of the six characters appear in the early stages of the play for insignificant reasons, and than exit into obscurity--loose ends unconnected with the remainder of the plot. Rosner, for example, has apparently no better excuse for being in the play than to provide the hero with the indispensable automatic. The gun, together with an unemptied waste basket, remains conspicuously placed in the office of a busy business man for twenty four hours; of course nobody disturbs...