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You know pretty well what Beauty and the Beast would be like acted by four children who had spent the afternoon in arranging their costumes and so had left no time for rehearsing what they had to say. Yet it delighted them, and it charmed their audience. And what more can any play do, even Shakespeare's?
"Shall we see him again to-night?" "You may stay up and wait for him if you wish," returned Miss Southard, "but it will be after midnight. 'Hamlet' is a long play." "I saw Mr. Southard in 'Hamlet' long before I knew him," remarked Anne. "My father and I were in New York rehearsing the play in which I afterwards refused to work. The manager of our company was a friend of Mr. Southard.
Here we were, just in this part of the room: here was your cousin, here was I, here were the chairs. Oh! why will such things ever pass away?" Happily for her companion, she wanted no answer. Her mind was entirely self-engrossed. She was in a reverie of sweet remembrances. "The scene we were rehearsing was so very remarkable! The subject of it so very very what shall I say?
Fortunately, he recovered himself in time to greet her with a smile. It was not the smile he had been rehearsing half the day, but that it was a smile of any sort astonished the words away from Mrs. Korner's lips, and gave him the inestimable advantage of first speech. "Well," said Mr. Korner cheerily, "and how did you like it?" For the moment Mrs.
I never could think of you as anything else than a good friend." I was too much stunned to speak. For days I had been rehearsing in my mind what I should say to her when her hand was in mine, but I had not prepared for a contingency like this. I was helpless. I could only lean back in my chair and gaze at her reproachfully. "You will forget me very soon," she said, looking up after a moment.
You see," went on Shirley, supporting herself by "linking" into the accommodating arms extended, "Dol Vin fetched her out here from the city so that she could practice her howling. She was cast for a part with a wild scream in it, and every time she attempted to practice someone interfered, the police usually." "No wonder," interrupted Jane. "Why couldn't she stick to the theater for rehearsing?"
"You could never be that," he answered, "but you are at least more serious than usual." "Perhaps," she said, "I am superstitious. This is my last week at the 'Unusual, you know. We begin rehearsing on Monday at the 'Garrick'." "Surely," he protested, "the change is all in favour of your own inclinations. It is your own choice, isn't it?" She nodded. "Yes. But I believe that Mr.
The words sticking out of long, twisted sentences, detached themselves and came to him like furtively indecent caresses. Mary promised. So he agreed to go with her to the Players' Studio where she was rehearsing in some kind of nut show. "You must come too, Rachel. Frank Brander has done some gorgeous settings for the next bill." Long hours before eight o'clock.
The rehearsal went on and eyes of the company furtively wandered to the face of the duchess, anxious to know what so powerful a personage and so keen and outspoken a critic thought of the performance. But the serene face of her grace never changed. The rehearsing of one act was over, and there was an interval before commencing the next one. The duchess turned to Gay. "How is this, Mr. Gay?
Then she walked past Leviatt, picked her way daintily over the loose stones on the hillside, and descended to the level where she had tethered her pony. Ben stood grinning admiringly after her as she mounted and rode out into the flat. Then he turned to Leviatt, soberly contemplating him. "I don't think you were rehearsing for the book," he said quietly, an undercurrent of humor in his voice.
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