Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seek reform. The representative assembly has been used by unrecognized politicians as a springboard to project them into the charmed circle of successful ringsters. The policies of the country are dictated by alternating clans, surviving from the old classification of nobles, who use the imperial throne as a shrouding curtain for their intrigues. But the most ominous political portent is not distrust in the obviously transplanted institution of parliament, but the total absence of any temperate party which looks to the ending of current abuses by political means and to the gradual modification of present institutions by pearceful methods. Political...
Shaw at his best--and that is saying a good deal--was what the audience at the Tremont saw Monday night when "Saint Joan" opened its Boston run. The audience knew that it was Shaw at his best, for although Miss Arthur took most of the curtain calls, the applause was stimulated by the play itself, and the handclaps were meant for the other side of the Atlantic...
...Guardsman. As the curtain went down on the opening performance, great sighs of critical relief were heard. The shuffling parade of poor (with one notable exception?What Price Glory?) productions which has been passing in review this autumn had been halted a second time...
...which officially closed closed Tuesday, as the most successful in recent years. The deceptive fair weather of last week had held out hopes for another week of practice, but Monday's game was played under such bad weather conditions that Coaches Mitchell and Davidson reluctantly agreed to drop the curtain on baseball for the year...
Clever dropped-curtain-speculations as to the prospective "in-laws", as told by the head of each family, furnished the one new piece of technique in the play. The appearance of the English family on the front of the stage, preparatory to their entrance to Col. Draper's suite, puzzled the unsophisticated members of the audience, but, once the idea had penetrated, they chuckled for the rest of the performance...