Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, the first night of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, with Pauline Lord in the title role, received a tremendous ovation. After the first act the curtain was rung up a dozen times during the applause...
...bring up the child, and resolves to marry her old suitor from New Jersey-when it develops that he, too, is a successful bootlegger. The real father then conforms to the exigencies of the plot by reforming under the beneficent charms of the child. A happy curtain is rung down. The cast is well selected, and Alice Brady, who takes the leading role, gives, according to the critics, a notable performance. Heywood Broun: "We saw one of the finest performances the American theatre has known in our time." Percy Hammond: "Nice, rough, nursery stuff, calculated to charm the sophisticated drama...
...blood in his manly frame, and after a very pleasant second act at the Bahamas, during which there is a whacking-good number called "Will you marry me?", the company returns to a third act at the Cost-leigh-Pleasure in civilization, some admirable specialties, and the final curtain. Not a new plot, to be sure, but it has its new twists and angles...
...shout in stentorian indignation: "He it was, and not the poor but honest hero on whom he is trying to lay the blame, who took the missing papers from the lower drawer of the mahogany desk in the upper left hand corner of the stage just before the curtain fell on Act I, Scene...
...week ago Attorney General Daugherty, in a curtain speech, said that Mr. Harding would appear in the great political production of 1924. Shortly afterwards Senator James E. Watson of Indiana allowed himself to be heard hammering down the planks which the Presidential feet will tread during the coming drama. In comparative isolation aboard the Pioneer, Mr. Harding was apparently keeping his own counsel and making his own plans. It is understood, however, that in a nation-wide tour next summer the President will make 20 speeches-in which case he will have to have something to talk about. Inasmuch...