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Updated: June 24, 2025
A young soldier with the stripe of a lance-corporal entered, slightly nervous and slightly defiant. "And you, Miss I-forget-your-name." A young woman entered; she had very red lips and very high heels, and was both more nervous and more defiant than the young soldier. "This is Mr. Dialin, you know, Con, second ballet-master at the Ottoman. I met him by sheer marvellous chance.
He maintained that so far he could only see the matter in a black light, and he brought forward some arguments that sounded very sensible; he criticised the whole Opera as an institution and the public attached to it, and also our staff of singers, of whom he maintained that not a single one understood his part as I intended it; and he exposed all the disadvantages of the undertaking, which I myself could not fail to see as soon as I came to deal with the chef du chant, the regisseur, the ballet-master, the conductor of the chorus, but, particularly, with the chef d'orchestre.
At last the son of Judah was forced to give in, and promised to speak to the ballet-master the same day, in order that she might dance the 'pas' with the actor she named. "And that, I hope, will please your excellency," he added, with a low bow, which is not often a proof of sincerity, especially among Jews.
Dickson Quartus, commonly known as Dick Four, was Aladdin, stage-manager, ballet-master, half the orchestra, and largely librettist, for the "book" had been rewritten and filled with local allusions. The pantomime was to be given next week, in the down-stairs study occupied by Aladdin, Abanazar, and the Emperor of China.
At this moment stepped forth the premier violin, master of the ceremonies and ballet-master, Massa Johnson, really a very smart man, who gave lessons in dancing to all the "'Badian ladies."
The ballet-master touched the white cheeks with rouge, and she stepped forward just in time, for Monsieur himself was coming angrily forward to learn the cause of the delay. Spectators said the windings of that dance were exquisitely graceful.
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