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Updated: June 27, 2025
The child rose; came down the centre of the stage to the lowered footlights and looked about her, first at the orchestra, then around and up at the darkened house that was looking intently at her a small ill-clad human, a spiritual entity, the only reality in this artificial setting.
The chattering suddenly took on a rapid crescendo, ascending a full third in the scale and then dying abruptly in a little high falsetto shriek; and Bobby, with a lady upon either arm, found his little trio immediately alone in the center of the stage, a row of dim footlights cutting off effectually any view into the vast emptiness of the auditorium.
It is a distinct branch of one's work to gain power and control and to adapt one's self to large spaces. One can only learn this by doing it. "It is sometimes remarked by listeners at the opera, that we sing too loud, or that we scream. They surely never think of the great size of the stage, of the distance from the proscenium arch to the footlights, or from the arch to the first set of wings.
"That is certainly the sane view; but the queer thing about society is that the people who regard it as an end are those who are in it, and not the critics on the fence. It's just the other way with most shows the audience may be under the illusion, but the actors know that real life is on the other side of the footlights.
Occasionally the picture goes out altogether, the Voice argues and argues, and the footlights return, and then you find yourself listening again to the rather too plump little man at his table laboriously enunciating propositions, upon whom the curtain rises now. Topographical Section 1
Taken in the entirety, in shine and shade, footlights and firelights, for poorer, for richer, for all that could torment or delight a sensitive artist, a great gentle-souled creative genius, as well as a tender and sympathetic woman, the married life of Wolfgang and Constanze Mozart must be placed among the most satisfactory in the catalogue of the relations of man and woman.
"Oh yes, she'd make him pay for the sacrifice," Peter blindly concurred. "And then when he had paid she'd go back to her footlights," Gabriel developed from the curbstone as his companion closed the apron of the cab. "I see she'd go back good-night," Peter returned. "Please go on!" he cried to the driver through the hole in the roof.
The footlights had seemed a hard, glittering line drawn sharply between their life and his; a circle of flame set about those splendid children of genius.
Cracknell across the footlights, shied like a startled mule. There was reproach and menace in the look he cast at Fillmore, and a minute earlier it would have reduced that financial magnate to apologetic pulp. But Fillmore was not to be intimidated now by a look. He strode down to the group at the footlights, "Cracknell," he said importantly, "one moment, I should like a word with you."
DeVere was a talented actor in the "legitimate," as it is called to distinguish it from vaudeville and moving pictures. But the recurrence of an old throat ailment made him suddenly so hoarse that he could not speak loud enough to be heard across the footlights.
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