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The actors seemed inspired to do their best, as well they might, with such a brilliant audience before them. I wondered if they did not miss the claque, to which actors are so accustomed in France.
Porcher is the man of whom Harel said: "He likes, protects and disdains Literary men." * A band of men and boys who are paid to applaud a piece or a certain actor or actress at a given signal. The applause contractor, or chef de claque, is an important factor in French theatrical affairs. Frederick has never less than fifteen dishes at his table.
But then, under the influence of some of the fellows I met there, I developed a considerable passion for the Jewish theater. These young men were what is known on the East Side as "patriots," that is, devoted admirers of some actor or actress and members of his or her voluntary claque.
Estelle, who will not dare to sing before those celebrated ones, but who will applaud, applaud in herself a prodigious claque! And now, behold! Miss Burgoyne arrives Miss Burgoyne in grand state and nevertheless you are her dear Nina, her charming friend, although in her heart she hates you for having carried off the handsome Lionel " "Estelle," said Nina, gently, "you let your tongue run away.
This condition seemed to Manuel so easy to fulfil that he asked his cousin: "But listen. How is it, then, that everybody doesn't go to the theatre like that?" "Because they don't all know the head of the claque as I do." And as a matter of fact they went to the Apollo. For the first few days all Manuel could do was think of the plays and the actresses.
The report of the committee on organization in the afternoon made George Ashmun, of Massachusetts, a most skillful parliamentarian ready in decision and felicitous in his phrases, the permanent presiding officer. One thing was immediately and specially manifest: an overflowing heartiness and deep feeling pervaded the whole house. No need of a claque, no room for sham demonstration here!
Every now and then, the wailing of a heated, irritable infant rose above the din, to be quieted more or less angrily by its mother. John looked at his watch. "Most time to start," he whispered. Indeed, the audience was beginning to grow restless. In the rear rows, a claque started a steady handclapping, and cat-calls and hisses from unmannerly boys became more and more frequent.
Drive them all away from the theatre, and leave the real public to its own impressions. "Nor I," said Lemaitre. "So be it," said the manager: "the claque shall be discharged." Such a bold step in a Paris theatre was almost unheard of. What! try to run a theatre without the regular corps of hired applauders? The thing was incredible.
Uniformly, regularly, with a certain mechanical and hollow effect underneath its bellowings, the group below the gangway uttered its war notes. Beyond all question, recognizable by the unmistakable family features, it was there the organized theatrical claque on the floor of the British House of Commons. There were other indications of the transformation on which the Tories were determined.
He can hardly be induced to witness the production of his own play. Johnson's lusty laugh from the front row of a side box gives the signal to the worthy claque, who applaud to an almost dangerous extent, in their zeal for their friend, because there runs a rumour that Cumberland and Ossian Macpherson and Hugh Kelly are getting up a hiss in the pit.
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