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...er, the ter- rible subjugation to sex, the phallic worship. The company of actors in the little theatre was from a small town away on the plain, beyon... ...dren, sat absorbed in watching as the Norwegian drama unfolded itself. The actors are peasants. The leader is the son of a peasant proprietor. He is q... ...5th of February, so each Thursday there is a Serata d’ Onore of one of the actors. The first, and the only one for which prices were raised—to a fourp... ... was nearly over. The play was not yet alive, neither in the bosoms of the actors nor in the audi- ence. I closed the door of the box softly, and came... ...is sturdy, ordinary fig- ure looked absurd in a melancholic droop. All the actors alike were out of their element. Their Majes- ties of Denmark were t...

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...ose productive little pieces, full of wit, which are written expressly for actors and actresses. Between them, they had invented Florine, an actress n... ... the outside have nothing within. But if we reflect on the small number of actors and actresses who live in each century, and also on how many dramati... ...n by au- thors, parts taken away or given to others, exactions of the male actors, spite of rivals, naggings of the stage manager, struggles with jour... ...said Lady Dudley. 69 Balzac “For my part,” said Madame d’Espard, “I think actors have greatly improved. Vaudevilles in the present day are really cha... ...edies, full of wit, requiring great talent; they amuse me very much.” “The actors are excellent, too,” said Marie. “Those at the Gymnase played very w...

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... aitbout. This side view, really very comparable to the peep- hole made by actors in the drop-scene of a theatre, enabled her to catch a glimpse of nu... ...ay beneath this introduc- tion to my tale, we must for a moment forget the actors in it, and look back at certain previous incidents, of which the las...

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...n that hideous drama and had constantly varied the details and touches. My actors were men, women and children; their number increased to hun dreds, ...

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...rvious to beak and claws, T radition’s ruinous Whitebeard was; Of whom, as actors in old scenes, Had grannam weavers warned their weans, With word, th...

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... was so completely intoxicated that he no longer saw theatre, audience, or actors, no longer heard the music. Nay, 21 Balzac more, there was no space...

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...r wil you set downe for the Massacre? GUISE. Thus Madame. They that shalbe actors in this Massacre, Shall weare white crosses on their Burgonets, And ...

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... lest the others should tell. As soon as the tea was despatched, the three actors de- parted, and presently there was a call from behind the screen, “... ...ndshakings before the sailor had time to distinguish one from another, the actors assuming their own characters, grandmamma and Mrs. Roger Langford as... ...augh arose the next moment at the appearance of the still half-dis- guised actors: Alex without Bassanio’s short black cloak and slouched hat and feat... ... with all his might and main! 107 Yo n g e Well, you are a capital set of actors, all of you, and we must see the end of it.” This was the great desi... ... note of preparation, and none clearer or louder than those of the charade actors. Beatrice was up long before light, in the midst of her preparations... ... to him, she explained in a droll manner the distress in which the charade actors stood, and how the boys had said that they might have Dumple to driv...

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...o tell you. 1439 When Rossius an Actor in Rome— 1440 Pol. The Actors are come hither my Lord. 1441 Ham. Buzze, buzze. 1442 ... ... Ham. Then can each Actor on his Asse— 1444 Polon. The best Actors in the world, either for Trage-die, 1445 Comedie, Historie, Past...

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...erings of the countess, and so enabled her to cast a furtive glance at the actors in this mys- terious scene. She did not recognize Bertrand, who was ... ...e sleeping duke were all once more assembled. Same place, same scene, same actors! but this was funereal grief in place of the joys of mother- hood; t...

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...e news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in Rome,— LORD POLONIUS : The actors are come hither, my lord. HAMLET: Buz, buz! LORD POLONIUS : Upon... ... honor,— HAMLET: Then came each actor on his ass,— LORD POLONIUS: The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, past...

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...ecourse to their fists in a dispute, after the fashion of every one of the actors in that public entertain- ment who gets possession of the cudgel, is...

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...f you were dismay’d: be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into t...

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...for them under us, and lis- tened to the music, chewing tobacco. While the actors and fiddlers were going on, most of the spirits-of-wine lamps on alt...

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...f anger; but Modeste smiled, as we smile at the theatre while watching the actors. Her pride could not descend so low as the level of such speeches. T... ...es of Mongenod respecting Canalis and La Briere. “We are going to have two actors for one part!” he cried gaily. Nevertheless, he requested his old co... ...ious praise had given him a habit of exaggeration, which neither poets nor actors are willing to check, and which made people say of him (always throu... ...stures of self-complacency and prac- tising those tricks of demeanor which actors call “balancoires,”—the picturesque phrase of an artistic people. Ca... ...ook Madame Dumay’s arm to re- enter the house. A few moments later all the actors in this domestic scene reassembled in the salon, and were a good dea...

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...rder, in which the natives of the forests were the principal and barbarous actors. As the credulous and excited traveler related the hazardous chances... ...ey stood, heightened as it was by the calm though steady resolution of the actors in the scene. The sisters shud- dered and clung closer to each other... ... man broke out of his ambush, and sprang forward to join the two principal actors in the scene. The merriment of Hawkeye was not easily appeased. With... ...tood two men, who were apparently selected from the rest, as the principal actors in what was to follow. The light was not strong enough to render the... ...ak.” The females stood modestly aside, and, from having been the principal actors in the scene, they now became the meek and attentive observers of th... ...youthful and brave with a desire for vengeance. Neither were the secondary actors in these momentous inci- dents forgotten. Through the medium of the ...

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... out. Madame des Grassins succeeded in putting her son beside Eugenie. The actors in this scene, so full of interest, commonplace as it seems, were pr... ...on went into the kitchen, moved by irresistible curiosity to watch the two actors in the scene which was about to take place in the garden, where at f... ... dagger, or the spilling 120 Eugenie Grandet of blood; but—as regards the actors in it—more cruel than all the fabled horrors in the family of the At...

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...was al- 25 Balzac ways in search of Ratons. As he is one of the principal actors in this drama he deserves a description, all the more precise becaus... ...ther costly gratification. Consequently, he was much liked in the world of actors and actresses, journalists and artists. For one thing, they had the ... ...lancholy, like most of the great comic players. Launched into the world of actors and actresses, writers, artists, and certain women of uncertain mean...

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...e to me in the compartment were a couple of figures almost as vivid as the actors in the “Comedie Humaine.” One of these was a very genial and dirty o... ... place is a proof of extraordinary power of voice on the part of the Roman actors. It was after we had spent half an hour in the moonshine at the aren... ...olumns, as we sat on the broken benches, stood there like a pair of silent actors. What I called touching, just now, was the thought that here the hum...

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...ought little. A novice in theatrical ways, I became a prey to musi- cians, actors, journalists, orchestras. T o get the means to leave Paris and join ... ... addi- tional features of assault and assassination, other facts and other actors appear, all connected with the robbery itself and with the dispositi... ...bery. It now becomes necessary to show the exact part taken by each of the actors in this crime. Dubut, Boislaurier, Herbomez, Courceuil, and Hiley we...