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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.
He would have liked to have taken one with him for investigation, but it was out of the question to pry it off that scaled limb. Sssuri straightened up from his last gruesome bit of stage-setting with a sigh of relief. "Go ahead." He pointed to one of the other archways. "I will confuse the trail."
Peace! . . . A few days afterward Desnoyers recalled bitterly the old man's illusion, for war domestic war broke loose in this idyllic stage-setting of ranch life. "Run, Senor Manager, the old Patron has unsheathed his knife and is going to kill the German!" And Desnoyers had hurried from his office, warned by the peon's summons.
They profess wonder now at your knowledge of scenic effect as well as your eye for costume and stage-setting. Your last letter disturbed me greatly, while it pleased me. I liked its tone of boyish enthusiasm, but your directness of speech scared me. I'm almost afraid to meet you. You men are so literal, so insistent in your demands.
With this powerful spot-light to project its cone of dazzling brilliance upon the scene, the watchers on the railed platform of the superintendent's service-car saw every detail in the swift outworking of the tragic spectacle for which the hill-facing curve was the stage-setting.
Up to this point white criticism viewed the stage-setting of the black comedy with the impersonal interest of a box party. Some of the round table said they believed there would be a dead coon or so before the scrape was over. Dawson Bobbs, the ponderous constable, went to the trouble to telephone Mr.
His shoes and trouser-legs still showed clear signs of the scorching they had received. And his palms were cut and abraded. "If I had wanted to make up a story," said he. "I could have devised one that didn't call for such painful stage-setting." "Oh, don't!" she begged. "Don't speak so flippantly of it! How can you? And don't think for one instant. that I doubted your word. I didn't.
Having lost public sympathy through workhouse sentences, having won it back by pardoning the women, the Administration felt it could afford to risk losing it again, or rather felt that it had supplied itself with an appropriate amount of stage-setting. And so on the third day of the riotous attacks, when it was clear that the pickets would persist, the Chief of Police called
The captain had hung his lantern on a beam overhead, and its rays limned like a stage-setting an open space some six feet square. Aye, a stage-setting, and the scene a torture chamber.
Superb was the stage-setting, splendid the audience. The play went forward amid loud applause. The scene was reached where came the objectionable word. Did Mademoiselle Mars use it? Of course not; she used the word she chose she was a woman. Fifty-three times she played the part, and not once did she use the author's pet phrase; and he was wise enough not to note the fact.
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