Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laugh, Clown, Laugh!" David Belasco, occult archimage of the theatre, has muttered incantations over an ancient artifice and whisked away the curtain cloth to disclose it as a new play of absorbing intensity. Fausto Martini's "Ridi, Pagliaccio" (Italian) is the source; the story is that of Punchinello...
...succumbs to Luigi's importunities. The third discloses Tito surrounding himself with mirrors, defying the clown to make the clown laugh. As he pricks his heart a group of children passing the window interpret the action as comic pantomime and stand, laughing, at the window while the curtain falls...
...When the curtain rose and revealed the tenor the audience gave him a tremendous ovation, to which he bowed in all dignity. He sang terribly, but they applauded every note he emitted. When the others of the cast-good artists-sang, they hissed them. Wilder and wilder grew the farce until everybody in the audience and on stage-save the unfortunate tenor-was choking with laughter. The hero was puzzled, but accepted his success. After the performance they put him in his carriage and in the ancient grand manner unhitched the horses, and the cheering crowd dragged...
...masses whose francs support the Theatre. He lives on the earnings of his wife. To gain food and clothing for him, she sells herself to a succession of stage-door libertines. He gets the food and clothes. Finally he turns to a variety of unpleasant activities, brings the curtain down by strangling his wife in drunken frenzy...
Architects have already gone over the Hasty Pudding Club house with a view to remodelling it to suit the new requirements. Tentative plans have been made for enlarging the stage in the Pudding theatre and adding an asbestos curtain and other improvements to make the stage absolutely fireproof. The main hall of the theatre will be furnished as a club living room, and this furniture will be removed on occasions of dances and plays...