Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: We were in that front-row seat when the curtain rose on "The March of Time" this p.m. We got a wonderful thrill out of your vivid portrayals. Welcome back on the air! MRS. MARY DICKINS...
Ballyhoo of 1932. "As clean and wholesome as the magazine!" promises Comedian Bob Hope from an upper box labeled "Complaint Department" a moment before Ballyhoo's many-hued curtain goes up. The revue (written by Ballyhoo magazine's editor, Norman Anthony) keeps its leering promise. Able Comedian Willie Howard struggles home on a street car with the most essential fixture for his bathroom; with Brother Eugene he tries to make a papier-mâché cow "give"; on a Columbus Circle soap box he makes a Communist speech: "Rewolt! Our cup of beeterness ees feeled...
...watchful eye. When Cora starts for a dance with him Mrs. Davis collapses in the footlights. During the entire third act Mrs. Davis lies unconscious on a sofa in full view of the audience while other members of the household leave Cora to care for her. When the curtain goes down Mrs. Davis is dead. Playwright Raymond Van Sickle evidently felt very strongly that mothers are the curse of small-town life. Manhattan playgoers, for most of whom the mother problem has been superseded by the housing problem, will probably feel no less strongly concerning plays about them...
...system of muscles around the pupil opening acts as a draw string to decrease the size of the pupil in bright light. Radiating from the outer circumference of the iris to the pupil are muscles which draw the pupil open in dull light, like the pull cords of a curtain...
...Kelk), just expelled from boarding school. After a fair example of the devilment which Peter and his small Negro coeval (Raymond Bishop) are capable of raising, the lawyer and the horsey lady decide that neither of them could put up with custody of the Burroughs child each year. The curtain dips with the understanding that the Burroughs family, complete with Peter, will soon be officially reunited. If you are one of a large section of the theatre-going public which finds all child actors offensive, the disarming antics of Masters Kelk & Bishop should go far to change your mind...