Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actors Appear Before Curtain...
...innocuous desuetude." But Hopper gives the thing its, authority, as the Kentuckian said of the "corn" in the julep. When he is on (which happily is most of the time) whether to heap new polysyllabies on the head of his obtuse Semegambian followed, or to narrate before the curtain the tragic consequences of "The Wrong Flat", the audience laughs itself sick. When he is off, the play has as much freshness as is found in articles rummaged from grandmother's trunk in the attic...
Meanwhile, behind the curtain, scenery is being set in place and props properly located. J. P. Morgan himself, with his partner T. W. Lamont, have conferred with the Bank of England officials, with German Finance Minister Luther, and with Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank...
...bankers and investors alike have become somewhat impatient waiting for the German loan. The publicity-orchestra has stopped playing, the lights have been turned down, yet still the curtain does not go up. At the American Bankers' Convention, Mr. Dwight W. Morrow was down on the program for an address entitled International Loans. Suddenly Mr. Morrow found he could not be present after all. Several thousand bankers, left in the dark, are more curious than ever...
...view of the curtain of secrecy that has enveloped all the happenings in the Stadium this fall and the unusual amount of speculation as to the plans of Head Coach Fisher the following excerpts from an article that appeared in the New York World yesterday is significant. It was written by Charles E. Parker, one of the football experts of that newspaper's staff. He has the following to say about the features that have distinguished the University teams for the last decade, namely the three man backfield, the high standing defensive line, and the waiting ends...