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As a body we are playgoers of judgment and experience, and, though I protest that we clap generously when there is a reasonable opportunity, the suggestion that we are a claque failing to do its duty because we do not applaud bad pieces is an outrageous insult.
He lives in retirement with his children and his mistress, who at present is Mlle. Clarisse Miroy. Frederick likes the table. He never invites anybody to dinner except Porcher, the chief of the claque.* Frederick and Porcher "thee-thou" each other. Porcher has common sense, good manners, and plenty of money, which he lends gallantly to authors whose rent is due.
Besides you will be out to-morrow." "I ought not to be here at all," Lennox indignantly retorted. "No, you are most undeserving. Mais écoute. C'est le père de la petite qui a fait le coup. Il me l'a avoué, ensuite il a claqué et depuis j'ai vu ton avocat. C'est une brute mais " "Can that," put in the keeper, a huge creature with a cauliflower face, dingy and gnarled.
There is a trade done in theatre tickets, just as Barbet trades in reviewers' copies. This is another Barbet, the leader of the claque. He lives near by; come and see him, there is time enough." "But, my dear fellow, it is a scandalous thing that Finot should levy blackmail in matters intellectual. Sooner or later " "Really!" cried Lousteau, "where do you come from? For what do you take Finot?
People pretended to be dead in order to be carried out, and well they might. The star was a fat man with a husky tenorino voice, who sang drunk and half-naked to a protecting claque of ten thousand hands.
The boxes contained Persons. In the galleries was the Foreordained Verdict. The claque was there as it had originated in the Stone Age and was afterward adapted by the French. Every Micky and Maggie who sat upon Creary's amateur bench, wise beyond their talents, knew that their success or doom lay already meted out to them by that crowded, whistling, roaring mass of Romans in the three galleries.
But you must have a claque: the author's coterie is a claque, properly drilled by him: every author has his claque: that is what friends are for." "I don't want any friends!" "Then you will be hissed." "I want to be hissed!" Mannheim was in the seventh heaven. "You won't have even that pleasure for long. They won't play you." "So be it, then! Do you think I care about being a famous man?... Yes.
Are you drilled even to your smiles?" "To everything," he said. "Including our enthusiasms. We're like the claque at a theatre." Then he turned and looked at me with those kind, surprising eyes of his, they're so reassuring, somehow, after his stern profile and said, "To-morrow I shall be a human being again, and forget all this, forget everything except the beautiful things of life."
Lady Holme glanced from one to the other, and murmured to Sir Donald with a smile: "I think we shall find to-night that the claque is not abolished in England." He raised his eyebrows and looked distressed. "I have very little hope of her acting," he murmured back. Lady Holme put her fan to her lips. "'Sh! No sacrilege!" she said in an under voice.
There is a trade done in theatre tickets, just as Barbet trades in reviewers' copies. This is another Barbet, the leader of the claque. He lives near by; come and see him, there is time enough." "But, my dear fellow, it is a scandalous thing that Finot should levy blackmail in matters intellectual. Sooner or later " "Really!" cried Lousteau, "where do you come from? For what do you take Finot?
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