Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Music Box Revue. Another gorgeous spectacle?another moving curtain, this time a mermaid-one?much color?much beauty?only occasional lapses in taste?Grace Moore's voice ?Florence O'Denishawn's dancing? Frank Tinney?Josephy Santley? John Steel?Florence Moore. And this time, praises be, a revue with at least three uproariously funny interjections: R. C. Benchley's inimitable reading of the treasurer's report; a skit entitled If Men Played Cards as Women Do; an operatic rendering of Yess, We Have No Bananas! In many ways easily the best of all the revues...
Addresses, including a curtain-raiser by Charles E. Mitchell, President of the National City Bank of New York, and the Association President's annual address by J. H. Puelicher of Milwaukee, dealt largely with domestic economic problems-in contrast to last year's international speculations at the conference in Manhattan. Chief discussion topics: the Mid-West farmer revolt; sporadic distrust of bankers in general and the Street in particular; the attacks on the Federal Reserve system; the New York bucket shop exposeé: the return of competition to world markets...
...match. When Jane stands her ground the mother bursts into a blind fury and pours into Jane's sensitive, overwrought brain the poison tale of her inheritance among the children of the still, white satellite. The girl's mind falters under the shock, and as the final curtain falls the audience hears the purr of airplane high in the foggy night in which the lovers are climbing to the moon...
...husband-a bond salesman, a $10,000-a-year man. Miss Crothers would have discussed her problem at length and her adolescents would have represented a current difficulty in the younger generation. Mr. Tarkington would have made fun of his people. You would have been laughing at them from curtain to curtain. Not so, Mr. Davis. He has observed life well. He writes of it truly. Like all playwrights, Mr. Davis never quite knows just how his public will react to a play. Will they be conscious of the fundamental tragedy of Home Fires or will they, as in Icebound...
...Part One. Intermission. Part Two: Other Fancies, some eleven little skits on topical themes with an Envoi addressed to the Faded Actor and containing two of the most amusing things in the book, First Call for Spring and How I Succeeded in Business. Curtain...