Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain fell on the last scene but one in the little drama in the Chateau d'Ouchy at Lausanne...
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. Three notable names combine to give this play preliminary prestige before the curtain, rises. David Belasco, foremost American producer for many years, will sponsor it; St. John Ervine, Irish novelist and playwright, is the author; Mrs. Fiske, Mother Superior of the order of American actresses, will be the star. Mr. Belasco will import an English leading man. The play is a modern comedy...
...this same Scholar will unbend so far as to slide 50 cents under the box office grating the next time a burlesque troupe settles in the local auditorium he will suddenly feel younger. The rising curtain will reveal: first a pair of feet that are not mates, next a pair of checkered pantaloons merging into a green vest, finally a long and astonishingly rubric nasal organ. The comedian is suddenly struck violently in the stomach. He gyrates neatly, and falls flat upon his face. The memories involved may provoke a smile. More probably they will give the aged Scholar...
...were allowed an unlimited supply of books also from outside. Later, for health reasons, we were both of us allowed lights and bedsteads, and recently Mahatma Gandhiji has been allowed the use of a mosquito curtain. . . . While animal comforts are well looked after, he is mentally starved...
...Benchley's metropolitan theatrical experience includes brief appearances in No, Sirree and The 49ers. Both were melanges stirred together by the critics for the benefit of themselves and their friends. His act "in one" (all by himself) where he comes before the curtain and reads the Treasurer's report of finances, is rated as supreme burlesque. He will repeat it in the Music Box and do a bit with Frank Tinney, as well...