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Indeed, to put any play of Shakespeare's on the stage, absolutely as he himself wished it to be done, requires the services of a good property-man, a clever wig-maker, a costumier with a sense of colour and a knowledge of textures, a master of the methods of making-up, a fencing-master, a dancing- master, and an artist to direct personally the whole production.
The fact is, Mitchell's a conceited ass. He knows no more of acting than that chair, and he thinks he knows everything. 'It's fortunate you hadn't ordered your costume. 'Yes, indeed. As I told him, the whole thing might have cost me a tremendous lot far more than I could afford put me to tremendous expense; and all for nothing! But he said no doubt the costumier would take it back.
On the wall was a handsome portrait of the duchess; on the chimneypiece a bust of the duke, the work of Felicia Ruys, which at the recent Salon had received the honours of a first medal. "Well, Jenkins, how are we this morning?" said his excellency, approaching, while the costumier was picking up his fashion-plates, scattered over all the easy chairs. "And you, my dear duke?
Curtis," he said, "we must risk something, but I think I can make you up sufficiently to escape recognition, not so much by the Count as by others who may attend that supper party. You come, too, Mr. Devar. There is safety in numbers." With a deftness that was worthy of a theatrical costumier, the detectives converted themselves and the two young men into ship's firemen.
When I had polished them off, Anthony shook his green-turbaned head. "No portrait of him in my rogues' gallery. Just now, I'm sensitive about spies over-sensitive rather. Of course, you've spotted my game?" "I confess I was conceited enough to think you'd given yourself all this trouble with the costumier in order to take a rise out of me.
It is true that, with the assistance of the scene-painter, the costumier and the conductor of the orchestra, he may add to this something of pageant, something of sound and fury; but these are, for the dramatic writer, beside the mark, and do not come under the vivifying touch of his genius. When we turn to romance, we find this no longer. Here nothing is reproduced to our senses directly.
And any disguise you may think of, that too I could procure from a costumier, a Jew I know. Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly. Perhaps also a false beard or something of that kind may be needed. "Razumov turned at bay. "There are no false beards needed in this business, Kostia you good-hearted lunatic, you. What do you know of my ideas? My ideas may be poison to you."
Nature, which provided me with balmy zephyrs that were more comforting than buttered toast; which set the race of the waves to the ridges of Fermain, where arose no shrill, heated voice crying, "Love forty"; which decked foliage in more splendid sheen than anything the local costumier could achieve, and whose poplars swayed more rhythmically than the dancers of the Assembly Rooms.
"It's a remarkably pretty costume." "Oh, I dare say, if I could beg, borrow, or steal it!" "You've no need to do either, my dear. I've had a brain-wave, and we'll fix it up for you at home. Yes, I mean it! Allow me to introduce myself: 'Miss Quenrede Saxon, Court Costumier. The very latest theatrical productions. I'll make you look so that your own mother will hardly know you!"
The old street and all belonging to it especially and peculiarly the Café Procope -was of the choicest Quartier Latin flavor in the time of which I write; in the pleasant, careless, impecunious days of my youth. A cheap and highly popular restaurateur named Pinson rented the old theatre. A costumier hung out wigs, and masks, and débardeur garments next door to the restaurateur.
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