Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curtain's Fall. In 1933 smart, aggressive Harvard-man Dave Lilienthal, who had been fighting the ogre of private ownership as a member of the Wisconsin utility commission, took over TVA. Member of a three-man board, he dominated it from the start, became chairman two years ago when old Arthur Ernest Morgan, onetime president of Antioch (work-learn) College, was fired after a spectacular battle against Lilienthal policies. From the start utilitymen never doubted that Dave Lilienthal intended to run every private utility out of the Tennessee Valley...
...Hayes is Herbert Marshall; he, a frustrated architect; she, a cinemagnate's secretary. As she cajoles a jury into acquitting a man accused of killing his wife because he loves another, she falls in love with Marshall, a juror. As San Francisco saw Ladies and Gentlemen, the final curtain brought renunciation. Instead of going away with the secretary, the architect made ready to send his son to Europe, "in search of my lost youth." But the play had a bad case of third-act anemia, for which the authors last week were preparing transfusions. Ladies and Gentlemen pleased...
...Jersey City board room last week the play reached its climax before the curtain had well risen. At the first motion (to dispense with the reading of the minutes) Mr. Hardy sent his tellers among the stockholders to collect ballots on the motion. When all were in, Charlie Hardy, without so much as a glance at Oscar Cintas, rasped that the chair represented a majority of the stock, announced the minutes would not be read...
Last week listeners on NBC's Red network heard a radio drama whose acts were divided, not with the usual fading and swelling of music, but with a rumbling sound as of an oldtime curtain going up & down. The play was The Minute Men of 1774-5, by James A. Herne, 19th Century playwright, father of Actresses Julie and Chrystal Herne. NBC's actors carefully did not burlesque this story of Minute Man Reuben Foxglove's beauteous ward, Dorothy, who turned out to be the long-lost daughter of a British noble, and for whose affections...
...Yokel Boy occasionally makes fun of Hollywood, more often it imitates it. The show's bright particular absurdity is its first-act curtain-a superpatriotic spectacle featuring, at different stage levels, marching men, moving battleships, zooming planes, happy firesides and village blacksmiths-an assembly-plant version of The American...