Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curtain goes up on her regal bed chamber, horns sound exuberantly and woodwinds whisper racy innuendoes. The fun begins. A youth, Octavian, has spent the night with the Marschallin. Trapped there in the early morning, he hastily dons petticoats, pretends to be a maid. Enter a fat old Baron who promptly sets to ogling and tweaking her (him). From then on the amorous Baron is never sure whether his path is being crossed by a lovely maid or a courtly rival. True love, young, starlit and sudden, comes to the stage when Octavian, clad in shining satin and bearing...
...Press demands a look at the original. In desperation they dust off and beautify a love-loving chambermaid to fill their need. As the chambermaid happens to be impersonated by that sultry siren, Dorothy Hall, their task is not as difficult as it sounds. By the time the curtain falls, Messrs. Dunning and Schrank have ruthlessly kidded every metropolitan institution from the Brooklyn Eagle to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...
Outstanding among the actors were DeVeaux O. Smith '37, Robert A. Turner '37, Carl L. Billman '35, and Philip Dur '35. The scene of the doctors was exceptionally well acted, occasioning much laughter among the audience. A hearty applause and three curtain calls followed the close...
Nowhere else does a motorist, on finding or losing, say, a glove or a side curtain, expect that it will return to its owner through the smooth clearing channels of organized motoring. Before buying a used car the British motorist has it "expertized" by his club, knows what he is buying. Last week nobody knew better than Major Hore-Belisha that his antics as Minister of Transport are merely a smart flash in the political pan. They may help to blow him far, even perhaps-eventually-to the Prime Ministry...
...trick. Next afternoon he stepped onto the stage again. Excited, he forgot to have the lights dimmed, began to mutter mystically in the glare of a white spotlight. The audience saw a thin bright wire hoist the rope aloft, saw the Hindu boy climb up, hop easily behind a curtain. When the bloody members thudded down and the magician picked them up, the audience tittered to see an arm left oozing on the stage after the whole boy had reappeared. Magician Heger announced that he would not go to London...