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Updated: May 23, 2025
She was a very merry Alice to-night, for her long engagement at the Bouffes Parisiennes was at an end. And she had been making the best of her freedom by keeping Tanrade hard at work over the score of his new ballet.
A more laughable effect I never saw; in any European theatre it would have brought the house down, and the island audience roared with laughter and applause. This filled up the measure for the rival company, and they forgot themselves and decency. After each act or figure of the ballet, the performers pause a moment standing, and the next is introduced by the clapping of hands in triplets.
'The first descriptive ballet seen in London, England, said Henry, quietly, 'was "The Tavern Bilkers", which was played at Drury Lane in in seventeen something. 'Was it? 'And the earliest modern ballet on record was that given by by someone to celebrate the marriage of the Duke of Milan in 1489. There was no doubt or hesitation about the date this time.
Dragon broods of miniature motor cars nested in realistic garages. Dramatic scenes from real plays were being enacted in dumb show on the stages of theatres apparently decorated by Rothenstein. The Russian ballet had stopped in the midst of "Le Spectre de la Rose."
Her most ambitious compositions are "Les Amazones," a lyric symphony with choruses; a one-act ballet, "La Sevillane," still in manuscript; and the grand ballet and symphonic scena entitled "Callirrhoe," successfully given at Marseilles and Lyons, and now published in many different arrangements.
Moreland arose, and going to a side table, brought Whyte's album, which he laid on the table and opened in silence. The contents were very much the same as the photographs in the room, burlesque actresses and ladies of the ballet predominating; but Mr. Moreland turned over the pages till nearly the end, when he stopped at a large cabinet photograph, and pushed the album towards Mr. Gorby.
Why, that was when I was in the pony ballet with 'Adam, Eve, and the Apple. Did you see the show?" "Bet I did." Her eyes sparkled. "I was in the first row, third from the left in the 'Good-Night' chorus. Some kick to that song, wasn't there?" "I should say yes. We're old friends, then, aren't we?" exclaimed Yeager promptly.
There is a repetition of the ballet this afternoon." "You will read her a lecture while you are dancing?" "Yes, madame." "You promise to convert her?" "I will root out the heresy altogether, either by convincing her, or by extreme measures." "That is all right, then.
The door immediately closed, and d'Artagnan found himself again in complete obscurity. D'Artagnan placed the ring on his finger, and again waited; it was evident that all was not yet over. After the reward of his devotion, that of his love was to come. Besides, although the ballet was danced, the evening had scarcely begun. Supper was to be served at three, and the clock of St.
The Virgin came upon the scene to a dance measure like a ballet girl; but when certain of her attributes were paraded, and certain of her symbolical names declared, the music became singularly respectful; it became lower, halting and solemn, thrice repeating, on the same motive, some of her attributes, the "Refugium Peccatorum" among others; then it went on again, and began her graces again with a skip.
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