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They're so big that I can step out of them without unlacing them." "It's not my fault. I haven't anything to do with the costumes." "I know it; but what can I do?" "Never mind," said Patty, soothingly; "they don't look so awfully bad. You'll have to try and walk without raising your feet." She went out on the stage, where Georgie was giving her last directions to the scene-shifters.
And not only the poets, but the masters of these poets, the managers of playhouses, seem to be in this secret; for, besides the aforesaid kettle-drums, &c., which denote the heroe's approach, he is generally ushered on the stage by a large troop of half a dozen scene-shifters; and how necessary these are imagined to his appearance, may be concluded from the following theatrical story:
One sees why Wesley succeeded, and why The Salvation Army is succeeding. "'We make too much of sin, says evolution. 'We don't make half enough of sin! cries The General. Politicians and men of science seem like scene-shifters in the drama of life, and religion stands out clear and distinct as the only actor.
Certain is it that such men as Claude de Chauxville, as Karl Steinmetz, and a hundred others who are or have been political scene-shifters, are to be found in the Talleyrand rooms. It is a quiet club, with many members and sparse accommodation. Its rooms are never crowded, because half of its members are afraid of meeting the other half.
"The lad's game," said Cronin, with a commending look at the tall, easy figure by the steps. "But 'tis all like fly-by-night theatricals to me. The talk's bigger than the stage; there's a smell of gasoline in the air, and they're their own audience and scene-shifters."
'Oh, let the beef-eaters the scene-shifters I meant to say the servants those fellows, you know, in scarlet and black caps, look after them, replied brother Bob Spangles. 'But there are none of them here, exclaimed Mr. Sponge, looking back on the deserted road. 'None of them here! hiccuped Sir Harry, who had now got reeled to the window.
He liked to watch them coquetting with the big fireman detailed from the precinct engine-house, and clinging desperately to the curtain wire, or with one of the chorus men on the stairs, or teasing the phlegmatic scene-shifters as they tried to catch a minute's sleep on a pile of canvas.
But Gillier isn't a very delicate person, and he made comments before Miss Mardon, Crayford, and several of the company, before scene-shifters and stage carpenters, too. What he said was true enough. But it wasn't pleasant to hear it in such company." He came away from the piano, turned his back on her for a moment, and walked toward the farther wall of the room.
Carey appeared a tall, blond, extremely handsome person of the fashion-plate sort; and, at a word from the manager, two or three scene-shifters went and wheeled on to the stage a small upright piano. Nina did not seem at all disconcerted by their business-like air and want of little formal politenesses.
"It is one of those tricks played by Fact to discredit the imagination. Life is laughing at us again. The longer I live, the more I am conscious of being an object of derision by the scene-shifters in the wings of the stage. What a cynical comedy life is at the best!" "It all seems natural enough," rejoined David. "It is all paradox." "Isn't it all inevitable law?
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