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Updated: May 28, 2025
If he doesn't blow up he'll take it out on somebody else later." Potter stood silent in the centre of the stage, expressionless, which seemed to terrify the stage-manager. "Just one second, Mr. Potter!" he screamed, his brow pearly with the anguish of apprehension. "Just one second, sir!"
Slowly the curtain descends amid much acclamation and cries of "Mistake!" In his capacity of stage-manager, Jim Bloxam glides for a moment in front, and, in a few off-hand words to the audience, acknowledges the correctness of their apprehension. "I give Jim credit for his exertions. That really was most successful," said Lady Mary, as her son disappeared.
Genast, however, was always one of those artists who do not rely upon the stage-manager for the comprehension of their parts; he who has heard him and seen him knows so much. Being now a stage- manager himself, he probably thinks it unnecessary to play for the singers the schoolmaster, whom he, as a singer, never wanted.
I've been to see her at her flat, this evening, and she's as anxious to get away from us, Mr. Potter, as we are to " The star rose to his feet, his face suffusing. "You sit there," he exclaimed, "and tell me that a member of my company finds the association so distasteful that she wants to get away!" "Oh, no, Mr. Potter!" the stage-manager protested. "Not that at all! She's very sorry to go.
No singer, no tragedian, no comedian, no wit could have had such a triumph, could have given such intense pleasure. And yet none of the four had spoken a word. Such is genius. At the end of the fifteenth call the stage-manager came before the curtain and guaranteed that two thousand four hundred plates had been broken. The lights went up. Strong men were seen to be wiping tears from their eyes.
What's up? It sounds as if there were dirty work at the cross-roads!" The voice of the assistant stage-manager was calling sharply excited, agitation in every syllable. "All the gentlemen of the chorus on the stage, please! Mr Goble wants all the chorus gentlemen on the stage!" "Well, cheerio for the present," said Freddie. "I suppose I'd better look into this." He made his way onto the stage.
Folly here is worldly wisdom, resignation and lenient judgement. He who pulls off the masks in the comedy of life is ejected. What is the whole life of mortals but a sort of play in which each actor appears on the boards in his specific mask and acts his part till the stage-manager calls him off?
There was a castle by the sea, a "well at the world's end," a pool in a forest; princesses with names out of the "Morte d'Arthur" lost crowns of gold; and blind beggars without a name wandered in the darkness of eternal terror. Death was always the scene-shifter of the play, and destiny the stage-manager.
There are cries for the stage-manager; and when Jim Bloxam appears in reply to a laughing call, "The word? the word?" he bows low to the audience, and regrets his inability to comply with their request. "The distinguished authoress," continued Jim, "has taken none of us into her confidence.
Say, the next time you expect to get lanced for the big feed tell her you were once in the business and it will save you money. Ta, ta." In which Sabrina has a row with the stage-manager, leaves the show, frivols in the vineyard, denounces the male sex as being all alike, threatens, to take the veil, but finally falls upon the neck of her betrothed and all is forgotten.
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