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"And what have they put into the corner?" he asked. "Not the customary 'music, 'dancing, or 'tableaux vivants'? They ought at least to put 'An American." "Oh, there are to be several of us," said Newman. "Mrs. Tristram told me to-day that she had received a card and sent an acceptance." "Ah, then, with Mrs. Tristram and her husband you will have support.
What think you, Bertha? You can always suggest. 'You remember the tableaux vivants? said Mrs. Dallington Vere. 'Beautiful! but too elaborate a business, I fear, for us. We want something more impromptu. The tableaux are nothing without brilliant and accurate costume, and to obtain that we must work at least for a week, and then, after all, in all probability, a failure.
Any girl might have a headache, and Mrs. Ward did not wish her girls to be catechised as to how they spent their leisure hours. Besides, Janet Burns was occupying all their attention with the tableaux vivants, Queen Aneta's girls most good-naturedly leaving them the sitting-room to themselves for this purpose. Maggie, in her distant bedroom, felt the quiet in the house.
If anything goes wrong we shall still have the morning of the following day, for the fete does not begin until half-past two." Maurice rose, and in a comical tone announced, "Ladies, gentlemen, and artists, I beg you to be prompt for a rehearsal of the tableaux vivants to-morrow at ten o'clock. Any artist who is late, will pay a fine of a hundred francs, to the poor of the Duchess."
"Let us hear of the dream." "Oh! no, dreams ought not to be told!" And he pretended to busy himself with some orders. The guests who were to take part in the tableaux vivants began slowly to stream in. Maurice took Jean aside and told him what had happened that morning. "You must keep watch too. I am not going to leave the Duke."
Further, whilst Wagner's stage directions are sometimes disregarded as unintelligently as at Covent Garden, an intolerably old-fashioned tradition of half rhetorical, half historical-pictorial attitude and gesture prevails. The most striking moments of the drama are conceived as tableaux vivants with posed models, instead of as passages of action, motion and life.
I waited for some time in growing anxiety; but the pleasantry of the night went on as vividly as ever, and some clever tableaux vivants had varied the quadrilles.
These kind of "tableaux vivants" or "art studies" give quite a thrill of novelty to Cairene-English Society, a touch of savagery, a soupcon of peculiarity which is entirely lacking to fashionable London.
An able master arouses excellent pupils and their activities extend their ramifications into the infinite. From the earliest times philosophers especially have incurred the hatred, not only of their fellow scientists, but of men of the world and bons vivants, perhaps more by the position they assume than by their own fault.
But the audience did not see below the surface, and, in answer to clapping of hands and cries of Encore, the curtain was raised once more, and King Cophetua, seated on his throne by the side of his beggar-maid, was shown to them again. The excitement did not begin to calm until the tableaux vivants were ready.
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