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However, even yet there are very few players who know how to wear a Grecian purple mantle, or a toga, in a natural and becoming manner; and who, in moments of passion, do not seem to be unduly occupied with holding and tossing about their drapery. Our system of decoration was properly invented for the opera, to which it is also in reality best adapted.
We shall wait till the play is over, and then go to the door where the players come out. 'Twill take her some time to dress for going home we can't miss her that way." I sympathised with his feelings against making their meeting a scene for the amusement of frivolous lookers-on, and we waited patiently enough. Neither of us could have told, when the play was over, what was the story it presented.
Then, as the pianist begins to play, the others commence marching around the line of chairs, keeping time to the music. When this suddenly ceases, everybody tries to sit down, but as there is one less chair than players, somebody is left standing, and must remain out of the game. Then another chair is removed, and the march continues, until the chairs decrease to one, and the players to two.
All the players were already on their way downstairs; I was the only one who had remained behind, and as I did not know any of them, no one noticed it. Olympe herself was lighting the way, and I was going to follow the others, when, turning back, I said to her: "I must speak to you." "To-morrow," she said. "No, now." "What have you to say?" "You will see." And I went back into the room.
Not so the Baconians; he concealed, they think, a vast LITERARY aim. They must take his alternative to be "some sorry bookmaker, OR a pioneer in that mine of truth," as meaning that he would either be the literary hack of a company of players, OR the founder of a regenerating philosophy.
She is virtuous, though bred behind the scenes: and, whatever pleasure she may feel in seeing herself applauded on the stage, she would much rather pass for a modest girl, than for a good actress. "My father," said Eugenia, "was at the head of this company of strolling players; my mother was a young lady of respectable family, at a boarding-school.
I seemed to see the Puritanic figure of my guardian standing among the fripperies of the theatre and pointing to the players, the fantastic and effeminate men, the painted women, the giddy girl in boy's clothes, merrier than modest, pointing to these with solemn ridicule, and eying me with stern rebuke. His image was a type of the austere duty, and they of the vanities of life.
Suddenly he paused as he unfolded a piece of note paper, and we gathered around to read: MY DEAR STELLA: Have something very important to tell you. Will you lunch Tuesday at the P. G. tearoom? "Tuesday " murmured Kennedy. "And this is Monday. Who who is Larry, I wonder?" I hastened to answer the question for him. It was my first opportunity to display my knowledge of the picture players.
During this last one the prisoner is led off to one side to a place supposed to be a prison, and is there asked in a whisper or low voice to choose between two valuable objects, represented by the two bridge players, who have previously agreed which each shall represent, such as a "diamond necklace" or a "gold piano." The prisoner belongs to the side which he thus chooses.
But the world at large can see it exhibited in another way. Contrast the work of the Ulster Players with that of the Abbey Theatre. The Drone is perhaps not the best of new Irish comedies, but it is infinitely the pleasantest; there is no bitter tang in its hearty humour.
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