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Updated: June 24, 2025
She took it for granted that there must be, for men, an attraction toward women who figured publicly behind the foot-lights, though it appeared very silly to her. In fact it all was silly and undignified part and parcel, no doubt, of that undergraduate foolishness which seemed to cling to some men who had otherwise attained discretion.
"I'm not a theatrical person myself, although I do keep this boarding-house for them, and I don't know much about life behind the foot-lights, only as I hear them tell about it; but if I were in your place, it seems to me that I should accept it. If you don't like it, or get something better, it's easy enough to make a change, you know."
"Ah! there's your cue now." Out in the center of the stage stood a young man, exclaiming eagerly, as he looked in their direction: "Ah, here comes the little society belle now!" "Go on; walk right out on the stage," whispered Mally, giving Jessie a push. Jessie never knew how she got there. The glare of the foot-lights blinded her. The words her companion uttered fell upon dazed ears.
In the confusion of my waking thoughts, I imagined myself still before a crowded and enthusiastic audience the glare of the foot-lights the crash of the orchestra the shouts of "l'Auteur," "l'Auteur," were all before me, and so completely possessed me, that, as the waiter entered with hot water, I could not resist the impulse to pull off my night-cap with one hand, and press the other to my heart in the usual theatrical style of acknowledgments for a most flattering reception.
Be it observed and I put it most uncompromisingly I am not speaking or thinking of any unrealizable ideal, not of any lofty imagination of what might be, but of what is, wherever there are pit and gallery and foot-lights.
At the further end of the room was a raised stage, with foot-lights in front, and three chairs in the middle of it.
His life and his world are quite different from ours. The orchestra, the foot-lights, and the green baize curtain, divide us. He is a monarch half his time his entrance and his exit proclaimed by flourish of trumpet. He speaks in blank verse, is wont to take his seat at gilded banquets, to drink nothing out of a pasteboard goblet.
I knew too surely the colour of Claire's eyes, so like brown in the blaze of the foot-lights. And her height Tom had only seen her walk in tragic buskin. How fatally easy had the mistake been! "Tom, your success is certain now." "Yes, thanks to her. They were going to damn the play before she entered. I could see it. Did you see, Jasper? She looked this way for a moment.
But if Ira Aldridge's exaggerated style of acting points to an African origin, would it not be better, if some of our distinguished actors, who are presumptively white before the foot-lights, took out free-papers at once?
But to drag this process from the background if we ought not rather to say, from behind the scenes to the very foot-lights, to publish it, to insist upon it, is as irrelevant as it would be for the historian and he, too, must make his own perspective to explain why he has recorded some events and left others altogether unnoticed.
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