Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From this curtain raiser to the very end of the play, magnificent and gruous scenes follow one another in lightening-like procession. Before, Cecil B. DcMille backdrops, two caoruses heavies and half-points, vie with one another. The little girls dance remarkably, and twice on Monday night succeeded in stopping the show. They are perfectly instructed, and steps which would seem banal if performed in solo seem unbeatable when drummed out in chorus. Their larger sisters make up in voice for their lack of beauty. George Jean Nathan will never award any pretzels to these frauds for looks, but despite...
...Clarence E. Martin, Vermont sheep raiser, reported last week a loss of 40 sheep, one Wallace H. Wing a loss of 31, all 71 having been eaten by black bears, who left the sheeps' skulls and big bones rolled up in the pelts...
...changes are expected in the lineup of the first-year men, and the same team that defeated Wentworth in the opener will probably tilt against the Boston schoolboys. Whitmore, who was so effective in the 1929 curtain raiser, will probably draw the mound assignment from Coach Davidson. The game is scheduled for 3.30 o'clock...
Desert Gold. Zane Grey has contributed another hair-raiser, in which a sand storm is a vast feature. It deals with the dangers surrounding a girl who lived on the edge of a Western desert, and how a brave lieutenant of cavalry (Neil Hamilton) preserved her from them. Western pictures, like Western sandwiches,- are much the same everywhere and good if you like them...
...curtain-raiser the bill includes The Pilgrimage, a character study of small town life in France by Charles Vildrac. It was agreeable and excellently acted...