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The inspector, who was scene-shifter, promoter, ticket seller, and publicity agent all in one, and who was not equal to any of these positions, took French leave in the second year and ran off with one of the chorus girls, taking the box-office receipts for the evening with him.
Talleyrand, Dalberg, Beurnonville, Jaucourt, and l'Abbé de Montesquiou at once formed a Provisional Government; but the soul of it was Talleyrand. The Czar gave the word, and Talleyrand acted as scene-shifter. The last tableau of this constitutional farce was reached on the following day, when the Senate and the Corps Législatif declared that Napoleon had ceased to reign.
Nature seemed to have turned scene-shifter, so artfully were the phases of this glorious spectacle successively developed.
Talleyrand, Dalberg, Beurnonville, Jaucourt, and l'Abbé de Montesquiou at once formed a Provisional Government; but the soul of it was Talleyrand. The Czar gave the word, and Talleyrand acted as scene-shifter. The last tableau of this constitutional farce was reached on the following day, when the Senate and the Corps Législatif declared that Napoleon had ceased to reign.
Surratt, Payne, Herold, and Atzerodt were hanged on July 7; Mudd, Arnold, and O'Laughlin were imprisoned for life at the Tortugas, the term being afterward shortened; and Spangler, the scene-shifter at the theater, was sentenced to six years in jail. John H. Surratt escaped to Canada, and from there to England.
"I am always conscious of that, Joe; the ramifications of public life are innumerable." "I could give you some rummikins abaht farmers. I once travelled in breeches." "You seem to have done a great many things Joe." "That's right, sir. I've been a sailor, a 'traveller, a waiter, a scene-shifter, and a shover, and I don't know which was the cushiest job.
Whether all who are willing to work will be paid equally, or whether exceptional skill will still command exceptional pay, is a matter which may be left to each guild to decide for itself. An opera-singer who received no more pay than a scene-shifter might choose to be a scene-shifter until the system was changed: if so, higher pay would probably be found necessary.
"It would seem like that," was the response. "What are you going to do when you get back to England?" she inquired. "I thought I'd ask you that," he replied anxiously. "Couldn't I be a scene-shifter or somefink at the opery w'ere you sing?" "I'm going to sing again, am I?" she asked. "You'd have to be busy," he protested admiringly.
Monsieur in a greasy green dressing-gown odorous of tobacco, swearing at a boy with blear eyes, a scene-shifter. The orchestra tuning beyond the foot-lights: how vilely the first violin slurred over that second passage! "Life's Prophecy," I called it; and that "Vision of Heaven," the trombonist came in always false on the bass, because, as Monsieur said, he had always two brandy-slings too much.
The girl screamed, the scene-painter dropped his brushes, ran to her side, hit the man in the face the scene-shifter lost his balance and fell to the stage.
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