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One sees occasionally in shop windows, and, it may be, in human habitations, a species of abominable clock that has no kind of casing to conceal the works; it suggests the image of a prima ballerina.
Helzer, the ballerina, danced as well before this audience as ever before the bourgeoisie. As I turned up the collar of my coat I reflected that the actors deserved all the applause they got for their heroism in playing in such cold.
It is true that, in England, the art of the ballet has gone down; the prima ballerina assoluta is getting rare, the primo uomo is extinct. The training of dancers as dancers leaves more and more to be desired, but that is a defect which we share, at the present time, with most other countries; while the beauty of the spectacle, with us, is unique.
Primo ballerino good; prima ballerina good, and people say pretty, but I have not seen her near. There is a grotesco who jumps cleverly, but cannot write as I do just as pigs grunt. The orchestra is tolerable. In Cremona, the orchestra is good, and Spagnoletta is the name of the first violinist there. Prima donna very passable rather ancient, I fancy, and as ugly as sin.
Bertha Martin was swinging her left foot out across the curb with each step, giving her right heel a little twirl to keep her balance. "You are very clever, Bair-ta," said Mademoiselle, still in French, "but you will never make a prima ballerina." "Hulloh!" breathed Jimmie, "she's perking up." "Isn't she?" said Miriam, feeling that she was throwing away the last shred of her dignity.
The beautiful Marianna Rum-punch The Palazzo Albrizzi A play at the Fenice The sick Ballerina The gondola Praise of Italy Beppo Childe Harold Riding on the Lido The inquisitive English Shelley in Venice Julian and Maddalo The view from the Lido The madhouse The Ducal prisons.
As I was the only one in the troupe that knew how to figure for I've had an education," interposed Don Alonso, "and my father was a soldier they named me director. In one of the towns I reinforced the company with a ballerina and a strong man. The dancer's name was Rosita Montanes; she's the one I thought of when you mentioned the Rosita you were looking for.
She boiled up, pure blanc-mange and roses, over the dark brim of life's afternoon, a blushing sunrise, though late to rise, and most cheerful. Sometimes after spending an afternoon with her, Ali Baba feels so cheered that the Government of India seems quite innocent and bright, like an old ballerina seen through the mists of champagne and limelight.
To the prima ballerina the dancing is more important than the dance, to the actors the playing than the play, to many painters the facture than the picture, and so on. Music has been the main sufferer, particularly on the vocal side, and certain kinds of opera have been buried under the vocal acrobatics of the singers.
This was a trifle sententious, and Rowland turned to the bust of Miss Light. Like every one else in Rome, by this time, Miss Blanchard had an opinion on the young girl's beauty, and, in her own fashion, she expressed it epigrammatically. "She looks half like a Madonna and half like a ballerina," she said. Mr.
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