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Then Leonidas bade the rest of the army depart except his Spartans. But the Thespians also would not go; and then those Spartans and Thespians went out into the open and died gloriously. V. Destruction of the Persian Hosts During these same days the Greek fleet at Artemisium fought three several engagements with the Persian fleet, in which neither side had much the better.
Only the Thespians—let their names not be forgotten—chose to share the Laconians’ glory and their doom and took their stand behind the line of Leonidas. With them stood also the Thebans, but compulsion held them, and they tarried merely to desert and pawn their honour for their lives. More couriers. Hydarnes’s van was in sight of Alpeni now.
But, notwithstanding the common danger, only a few of the states responded to the call, and the only people north and east of the isthmus who joined the league were the Athenians, Phocians, Plataeans, and Thespians. The command of both the land and naval forces was relinquished by Athens to the Spartans; and it was resolved to make the first stand against Persia at the Pass of Thermopylae.
But he does not allow the Thebans the same plea of necessity, although they sent to Tempe five hundred men under the command of Mnamias, and to Thermopylae as many as Leonidas desired, who also alone with the Thespians stood by him, the rest leaving him after he was surrounded.
This, however, is pretty George's way; where some would use a whip he "fillips" people with "a three-man beetle." They say that all the amateur Thespians' clubs in the kingdom have passed fierce resolutions about him, and a monster petition is being prepared praying for his outlawry or excommunication.
The Great Actors who have died since the day of Euripides they sit around in their favorite make-ups in the Valhalla reserved for all good and glorious Thespians. A company of ladies and gentlemen that would make Mr. Belasco's heart stop beating! The Booths and Barretts from antiquity down, the Mrs. Siddonses and Pattis, the Cyranos, Hamlets, buffoons and heroes.
He has disappeared wholly, even in the metropolis, and, most unfortunately for Acre Hill, with Jocular Jimson Jones have departed also all its social glories. None of the elect come to its dances any more. The amateur thespians of the exclusive set no longer play on the stage of its club-house, and it was only last week that Mrs. John Jacob Wintergreen passed Mr.
The sun went down on a veritable love feast special rations, special music, special fires, and, between supper and tattoo, an entertainment in each regiment. The 65th had a beautiful programme, its debating and literary societies, its glee clubs, chess and checker circles, old sledge associations, Thespians and Greek Letter men all joining forces.
"That's one on me eh? Still, what I say is true or at least ought to be. By the way, this is the Burlingham Floating Palace of Thespians, floating temple to the histrionic art. I am Burlingham Robert Burlingham." He smiled, extended his hand. "Glad to meet you, Miss Lorna Sackville don't forget!" She could not but reflect a smile so genuine, so good-humored.
The theatrical season was already on the wane; each day Broadway's pavements in the immediate vicinity of Forty-second Street became more congested with lean-looking thespians, just in from "the road." The Rialto the haven of every disheartened barnstormer, the cradle of every would-be Hamlet!
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