Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Washington Conference, at which the five Central American Republics pledged themselves to keep the peace by treaty agreement, it should call that agreement forcibly to the attention of the signatories. In view of the fact that a serious international situation was believed to be developing behind the curtain of secrecy dropped in the shape of a censorship, the U. S. Government warned the President of Honduras through the U. S. Minister that it "regards with disfavor any attempt of a Government to perpetuate itself in power except by accepted constitutional processes...
...vaudeville interests have transformed the auditorium. They have eliminated the bulging stage apron and the billowing semicircle of curtain; they have cut the huge stage in half; they have added hundreds of seats. The Hippodrome is now the biggest theatre in the world with a capacity...
...coming production by Morris Gest and Max Reinhardt of The Miracle. Said I in a press interview: 'I am engaged to play the role of the Madonna, and I shall play it. Voila tout! I shall certainly not play on alternate nights with Lady Diana, and when the curtain rings up on the first night I shall be on the stage. If Mr. Gest insists that Lady Diana play, I shall sue him for $100,000. I have already spoken to my attorney and I have a good case. That would be a good fight, wouldn...
Eleanora Duse finished her engagement in Manhattan and departed for Boston, but not before New Yorkers had called her back for 27 curtain calls at her last performance. Morris Gest, conducting Mme. Duse's American tour, hade her a gift of flowers and a speech. Mme. Duse presented him with a polite answer and a kiss...
Tiger Rose. Ulric addicts will derive a curious mixture of sensations from this picture. The rare and radiant Lenore, whose wiry wickedness David Belasco has always turned to virtue just before the final curtain, has undergone a metamorphosis. Both her personality and appearance seem altered. She is still a good actress but Kiki no more. The play, many will remember, is No. 9,824 in the Canadian Royal Northwest Mounted Police stories. They always get their audience...