Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returns, sinister and languid, to toy with the nerves of both murderers and audience until he chooses to reveal and confirm his suspicions. One of the slayers is then prostrated with fright. Holding the other at bay with a sword cane, Cadell shrills a police whistle as the curtain falls...
Politely the audience sat through scenes showing Chicago gangsters in a loop dive, other scenes of the same gangsters being converted "to the religion of Henry Ford,'' by a bawdily singing Salvation Army worker. Then the curtain rose on the third act, entitled "In the Cathedral of the New Religion." The scene was a church interior. Over the high altar hung a sign "BETHLEHEM STEEL IS BEST." In the wall were three enormous glass paintings, prominently labeled, depicting three white-robed and haloed saints. There was a mummy-like SAINT JOHN (Rockefeller), a scrawny SAINT HENRY (Ford...
They got no further than the first stanza. Outraged bourgeois first-nighters bellowed "Outrage!" "Sacrilege!" Socialist defenders of the play shouted "Splendid!" "Colossal!" Terrified for his theatre, the manager rang down the curtain, sent for the police...
...theatre, garbed in a belted shooting jacket which he said had been made in 1904 and in what one observer called "an indescribably peaked Tartar cap," Shaw greeted his guests with gusto and much pleased tugging at his flaring, white beard. He left, however, before the final curtain...
...bathing suits, in bed; as the innocent, the maiden betrayed, finally as the tempered lady who babbled of green fields as she died in New Rochelle at the tender age of 22. Her devoted master and mistress, mystic and delicate respectively, were ever clad in lounging robes. When the curtain rolled down for the 34th time the audience wondered what Veronica had been "getting even" with- it may have been the audience...