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Updated: May 6, 2025
Push the stove to the right at once." "I'm willing enough," said Romilly, "but we shall be blocking up the door." "What's that? We shall be blocking up the door?" "Precisely." The manager of the theatre, the stage-manager, the scene-shifters stood examining the stage-setting with gloomy attention, while the author held his peace. "Don't worry, Master," said Chevalier.
Cooks and scene-shifters, fiddlers and waiters, were most inextricably mingled; and as in all similar cases, the least important functionaries took the greatest airs upon them, and appropriated without hesitation whatever came to their hands thus the cook would not have scrupled to light a fire with the violoncello of the orchestra; and I actually caught one of the "gens de cuisine" making a "soufflet" in a brass helmet I had once worn when astonishing the world as Coriolanus.
There were more embraces, and then Ollie brushed the powder from his coat, and went away laughing. Montague stood for a few moments in the wings, watching the scene-shifters putting the final touches to the new set, and the various characters taking their positions. Then they went out to their seats. "Isn't she a jewel?" asked Oliver. "She's very pretty," the other admitted.
The company advanced on the green with the precision of people well broke to these movements. Scene-shifters could not have been quicker with the three-piece rostrum, nor stewards with the harmonium.
The scene-shifters whispered to one another, and I followed the poor fellow home to his room. To hang one's self is to die a mean death, and poison is not always at hand, I know; but he thought of both. I saw how he looked at his pale face in the glass, with eyes half closed, to see if he should look well as a corpse. A man may be very unhappy, and yet exceedingly affected.
It is just that you should all amuse yourselves in your own way, O spectators! for the interval is long. All the actors have to change their dresses; all the scene-shifters are at work sliding the "sides" of a new world into their grooves; and in high disdain of all unity of time, as of place, you will see in the play-bills that there is a great demand on your belief.
And there, as I sat in that open boat, midst of the Sunderbunds, at my domestic antipodes, happened to me the most wondrous transformation which the tricksy stage-carpenters and scene-shifters of the brain have ever devised.
It completed the taking back of Romarin that the chiming of the clock, the doorknocker, the grouping of the chimney-stack and the crack in the flagstone had begun. "Well, my distinguished Academician, my " Marsden's voice sounded across the group of scene-shifters... "'Alf a mo, if you please, guv'nor," said another voice... For a moment the painted "wing" shut them off from one another.
The next moment Nina, who was coming across the stage, caught sight of him, and with a little cry of delight she ran towards him yes, ran; for what cared she about carpenters and scene-shifters? and caught both his hands in hers. "Ah, Leo!" she cried, with glad-shining eyes. "Oh, so brown you are! a hunter! you are from the forests!
One morning while he was at work one of the scene-shifters a man with whom he had had some difficulty met the girl as she was crossing the high platform. He had never seen her before and, thinking she was one of the chorus girls, threw his arm about her.
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