Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contract with the German University-all the necessary facts, in short-are brought out, but the act falled to move with just that sureness and "drive" which are needed to get the material over to the audience. There is a bit of interesting action toward the end, and the curtain could hardly be bettered...
...result of Mr. Bragdon's knowledge of lighting effects, it has been possible to shift the scene in the first act from the business man's home to the interior of an Alaskan bar-room without lowering the curtain. In this new setting a pantomime representing "The Shooting of Dan McGrew will be vividly rendered...
When the whistle blew last Saturday at the close of 45 minutes of furious playing in the New haven Arena, it was to draw the curtain on the final act of one of the most successful seasons in the history of University hockey. The victory over Yale came as a fitting climax to the brilliant succession of victories which extended over the last lap in the Crimson schedule, all the more satisfying because of the previous triumph over the Eli stickmen on February...
...tradition of bringing popular successes to Boston. Here is a bubbling comedy that belies from start to finish the "Peace, Perfect Peace" of the "motto" conspicuous over Mrs. Gubbins' humble doorway. Spirits, real and figurative, flit in and out; the souls of the departed are invoked as the curtain rises, and they answer the call in full person, to the discomfiture of the mediums and the three-act merriment of the audience. The comic situation is quickly and simply woven, exposition coming in each case just enough ahead of action to make it intelligible. Jimmie Gubbins, reported dead...
...different from the average plays produced on the American stage. As is the custom with all Dramatic Club productions, both plays are being produced for the first time in this country, and "The Witches' Mountain" is the first Argentine play to find its way to the American stage. The curtain-raiser, "The Violins of Cremona" is a costume comedy of the eighteenth century, the scene of which is laid in an Italian violin maker's shop, while the Argentine play is highly dramatic, taking place in a wild and mountainous region in the Andes...