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The husband, a thick-set, healthy man in evening dress, was drinking off neat whisky. He put down his tumbler, and deliberately struck a match; then with even greater deliberation he lit a gold-tipped cigarette.... Shelton was no inexperienced play-goer.
It was just as funny as a Wooden Leg. It needed much Pep and about two tons of Bokum. Both Words and Music refused to countenance any radical Changes. They said it would be another "Cavalleria" as soon as they could do it before an intelligent Audience of True-Lovers. The Ex-Minstrel Man said there wasn't no such Animal as an intelligent Play-goer.
"I had only one motive for shrinking from an appearance at the theatre but it was strong enough to induce me to submit to any alternative that remained, no matter how hopeless it might be. If I showed myself on the public stage, my discovery by the man from whom I had escaped would be only a question of time. I knew him to be habitually a play-goer and a subscriber to a theatrical newspaper.
As a matter of fact, all these plays, unlike as they are to each other, and not only these, but many more not a few of them fairly well known to the American play-goer are due to the collaboration of M. Henri Meilhac and M. Ludovic Halévy. Born in 1832, M. Henri Meilhac, like M. Émile Zola, dealt in books before he began to make them.
Perhaps it is to heighten the glamour of a place whose glamour hardly needs heightening, or more probably it is to soften the asperity of the play-goer who finds himself asked sixpence for that necessary evil, the programme.
That evening the three friends went to the theater, and saw their first play, "the Comedy of Errors," together. And it did many an old, satiated play-goer good to see the hearty zest with which honest Reuben enjoyed the fun.
They passed in through the long, colonnaded vestibule, with its paintings, and plaster casts, and rows of birds and animals in glass cases on either side, and she gave scarcely a glance at any of those objects, endeared by association, if not by intrinsic beauty, to the Boston play-goer.
She was an eager play-goer. That notable figure in the drama the man who tells his own story, under pretence of telling the story of another person was no unfamiliar figure in her stage experience. Her encouraging smile made its modest appearance once more. In the very beginning of her master's story, she saw already the happy end.
"Come and practise it to me, if your mother will be so kind as to bring you," said Peter Sherringham. "Do you give lessons do you understand?" Miriam asked. "I'm an old play-goer and I've an unbounded belief in my own judgement." "'Old, sir, is too much to say," Mrs. Rooth remonstrated. "My daughter knows your high position, but she's very direct. You'll always find her so.
A couple of minutes later I found myself occupying an excellent seat in the second row of the pit, oblivious alike of my recent disappointment and of Thorndyke's words of warning. I am not an enthusiastic play-goer. To dramatic performances I am disposed to assign nothing further than the modest function of furnishing entertainment.
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