Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rideau! Asses! Jetes le dehors!" (Curtain! Enough! Throw him out!) shrieked the audience. The play was finished with the greatest difficulty...
...cast howled lines so meaningless that soon after the curtain rose irreverent beholders were murmuring: "What's the shouting...
...curtain discovers the Jordans sitting in the parlor waiting for mother to die and hoping, each for self, that mother's money will be left practically intact to the heir hoping, Mother, with the usual idiosyncracy of a dying person, leaves the money to the least appreciated of the poor relations. But with the money Jane, the heir, also inherits the mother's wish that she reform Ben, the youngest son, and marry him so that he may have some of the capital. Ben, it seems, burned a barn in his early youth and has not been seen until...
...Spook Sonata. August Strindberg, Eugene O'Neil, Robert Edmond Jones, Kenneth MacGowan and Clare Eames contributed their considerable capabilities toward the production of this play. When it was all over and the curtain down, the rest of the group might well have turned and leveled accusing fingers at Strindberg. He wrote a play which is virtually incomprehensible. Various supernatural beings assemble and a certain villainous ancient is strangled by a mummified old woman. In the final act the hero admonishes the audience to be good because man's sins will seek him out. While the moral is clear...
After the last curtain had fallen to thunderous applause ? applause had thundered all evening?no one in the audience arose to leave. It was understood that speeches and gift presentations would take place. The curtain rose again; and now was seen Scotti in evening clothes, surrounded by all the principals of the Metropolitan Opera Company. An uproar! People shouted, clapped their hands. In the boxes sat two primadonnas who had sung Tosca to Scotti's Scarpia, Geraldine Farrar and Marcella Sembrich. They applauded with memories of many a triumphal performance...