Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Invisible Wires, Velvet Backdrop Sirs...
...called new reviews, having no startling scenery, calculated to make the audience gasp. In fact there is no scenery at all, the coloured orchestra and some black drapes forming the entire backdrop which does not change throughout. The show depends entirely upon a group of half a dozen or more principals, of whom Ethel Waters is the leading one. There is no dancing chorus but Cecil Mack's negro choir makes up for the lack of this by rendering several typical negro-spirituals...
...Cheer for Briand but Vote for Doumer." The Salle du Congrés, where Chamber and Senate met last week as the National Assembly, is shaped like an oblong box, the rostrum being at the centre of one of the longer sides. Behind the rostrum is a stately backdrop for the show, a wall against which brown columns stand like sentinels with ornate Corinthian caps. Around the other three sides of the room galleries rise tier on tier. A magnet for every eye is the great green-&-gold Voting Urn. As everyone knows, Aristide Briand, twelve times Prime Minister...
...When Edgar Wallace's Chicago gangdom play, On the Spot, was presented in that city-last week, to please civic-minded Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak the locale was changed to New York City, a Tribune Tower backdrop was painted out. Grant's Tomb painted...
Girls Demand Excitement (Fox). This is a juvenile Lysistrata played against a collegiate backdrop in dialog disinfected for young ears. The original framework of Aristophanes' comedy is kept to the extent that the girl students will not "pet" unless the male students stop depriving them of their communal rights. The big scene comes in the basketball game when the girls use flirtatious methods of managing a victory. Girls Demand Excitement is made bearable at times by the good looks of a youthful cast. Best part: Virginia Cherrill (heroine of City Lights) as the girl who eliminates the leading male woman...