Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irish ditchdigger who cures by homemade homilies paralysis in a wealthy banker. This artless theme will undoubtedly stir the heart strings and purse strings of thousands. To the faintly intelligent it will be incredibly banal. One almost expects Mr. Hodge to rush from the stage after the final curtain, shake each individual visitor by the hand and kiss good-bye the little girls in pigtails...
Good sets and fine lighting effects were the outstanding features of "The Dancing Girl" at the Shubert Monday night. The widely-advertised living curtain, which bids fair to become a fixture of all of this season's revues, much as the radium gowns of last winter's musical comedies, was a horrible disappointment. It presented what might have been five bathing beauties in gold one-pieces. Or the five most beautiful girls who have appeared in the Police Gazette this summer. Possibly they were certain muses: the Winter Garden is an authority on muses. Anyway, the curtain lasted only...
...drama by Molnar, author of Liliom, adapted by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Pauline Lord, whose performance of Anna Christie was one of the great things of the American theatre, was the star. Particularly auspicious were the omens since the play had attained brilliant Continental success. And so the curtain rose...
AREN'T WE ALL??This curious title is amplified in the curtain line of the play into " Aren't we all damn fools?" Cyril Maude and a particularly good cast argue a diverting affirmative...
...course, is inimitable; no one could rob his "apparition on the stage", as he says, of one whit of its originality or its unique humor. One is reconciled to the end of each scene only by the knowledge that this master comedian will reappear for one of his nonpareil curtain-talks, and when he actually joins the unspeakable "Russian Vocal Quartet" for a few flourishes, he raises the roof perceptibly. The temptation is to write reams about Balieff; his explanation that since the audience did not understand Italian, "La Grande Opera Italiana" would have to be sung in Russian...