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A voice called from the hallway: "It's me, Mr. Potter. Packer." "Oh, come in! Come in!" The stage-manager made a deferential entrance. "It's about Miss " "Sit down, Packer." "Thank you, Mr. Potter." Evidently considering the command a favour, Packer sat. "I saw Miss Lyston, sir " "I won't turn her adrift," said his employer peevishly. "You see, Mr.
Indeed she did not usually stop at taking the leading part, but, if possible, doubled another character with it, as well as being stage-manager and adapter, if not designer of scenery.
Once glance at his face had made her fears tangible and real: there was a look of satisfaction and triumph in his pale, narrow eyes, a flash in them of approbation directed at the insolent attitude of the French actress: he looked like the stage-manager of a play, content with the effect his own well-arranged scenes were producing.
'You little devil! she whispered, as she drew away from him and stabbed him with one wicked flash of her blue eyes. 'I'll forgive you this time, she added half a minute later; 'but it isn't professional. 'Time for one more run through, ladies and gentlemen, said the stage-manager, and once more the task began.
I asked you to learn if you'd worked out your plan yet regarding Maggie?" "Yes." And Larry proceeded to give the details of his design. "Regular psychological stuff!" exclaimed Hunt. And then: "Say, you're some stage-manager! Or rather same playwright! Playwrights that know tell me it's one of their most difficult tricks to get all their leading characters on the stage at the same time.
For my part, my wires are working rather rustily, but I must obey the Stage-Manager. For my requiem I wish somebody would ask them to play Gounod's masterpiece." "What's that?" asked Corliss, amused. "`The Funeral March of a Marionette!" "I suppose you mean that for a cheerful way of announcing that you are a fatalist." "Fatalism? That is only a word," declared Mr. Vilas gravely.
While it is the duty of the stage-manager to handle all the elements in his control so as to make the performance as perfect as possible, his most important function is to direct the actors themselves, to see that they read their lines intelligently, with just the emphasis requisite at that given moment in the unfolding of the story of the play, and to advise them as to the gestures and movements which should tell this story almost as plainly as the words themselves.
"And many a week's salary I have had there," continued the buxom visitor, pointing to the pay-place, "and now just let me have something paid to me to remind me of old times." Whereupon she went to the pay-place, when the gallant stage-manager put down a week's salary as of old, which the lady took up, returning it however, and placing at the same time in Mr.
No mechanical crossing and recrossing the stage, no punctilious tuition by your stage-manager all was inspiration and fire. But to Pinchas this hearing of the play twice over once raw and once cooked was maddening. 'The lazy-bones! he murmured. 'Not thus shall they treat my lines. Every syllable must be engraved upon their hearts, or I forbid the curtain to go up.
"'Canby?" he repeated inquiringly, the name seeming new to him. "Canby?" "You're Mr. Canby, aren't you?" "I meant where who " he stammered. "How did you know?" "The stage-manager pointed you out to me yesterday at rehearsal. I was so excited! You're the first author I ever saw, you see. I've been in stock where we don't see authors." "Do you like it?" he said. "I mean stock. Do you like stock?
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