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Kirkham's contemporaries, withered and sere in contrast with her lily-pure freshness. In the entr'actes the hostess recalled the opera house in its heyday when the Bonanza Kings occupied their boxes with the Bonanza Queens beside them, when everyone was rich, and all the women wore diamonds.
Brand told them you were going to do a show at the Erving Theatre to-night, so you'll probably see them." "Who are they?" she asked, puzzled. She had few friends, old or new. "I haven't the foggiest idea," was the reply. At the theatre she saw nobody she knew, though she looked round interestedly, nor was she approached in any of the entr'actes.
Never, in the entr'actes, have I detected, on their lips, a criticism or a comment. Dorriforth. Oh, they say "splendid" distinctly! But a question or two reveals that their reference is vague: they don't themselves know whether they mean the art of the actor or that of the stage-carpenter. Auberon. Isn't that confusion a high result of taste? Isn't it what's called a feeling for the ensemble?
To this it has been objected that, though the pictures might have pleased him, he would have been disgusted by the fact that a good many of his beautiful lines have to be cut because of the length of entr'actes and occasional pieces of stage business designed in order to draw the attention of the audience to the beauty of the scenery.
Christopher wrote the incidental music for the new comedy and composed an overture and entr'actes for it work for which he was paid pretty liberally. He wrote to Barbara of his better fortunes, and promised to run down and see her so soon as the business strain was over. But the business strain was over and he did not go.
He kept himself quiet in the entr'actes he would speak to her only at the end; but before the play was half over the manager burst into his box. "It's prodigious, what she's up to!" cried Mr. Loder, almost more bewildered than gratified. "She has gone in for a new reading a blessed somersault in the air!" "Is it quite different?" Wayworth asked, sharing his mystification. "Different?
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