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actor actress Adah Isaacs Menken ADELAIDE NEILSON afterward Alice appearance Arch Street Theatre audience Barney Macauley Barras Barry beauty Billy Booth Boston called Captain Chanfrau character comedian Couldock curtain Dick dressed E. L. Davenport E. T. HARVEY Cincinnati Evadne Fourth Street Frank FRANK CHANFRAU friends front girl Glessing Grand Hamlet heard Indianapolis Ingomar Jefferson John Havlin Johnny Mortimer Kitty Clive Laura Keene leading lady Leffingwell Lingham look Lotta lover Macbeth Macready married Mary Anderson Mazeppa Miss named never night old Pike old-time once paint bridge Parthenia Peg Woffington picture piece Pike Company Pike's Opera House played an engagement rehearsal river Romeo and Juliet Sallie St says SCENE PAINTER scenery scenic artist seemed Serious Family star story success told trap traveling voice W. E. Sheridan W. T. Porter Wallack wife William Gillette Woffington woman Wood's Theatre York young Zavistowski
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Page 10 - If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended: That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend.
Page 35 - Duke. Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent : For women are as roses, whose fair flower, Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
Page 54 - The plumes, the armours — friend and foe? The cloth of gold, the rare brocade. The mantles glittering to and fro? The pomp, the pride, the royal show? The cries of war and festival ? The youth, the grace, the charm, the glow? Into the night go one and all. The curtain falls, the play is played : The Beggar packs beside the Beau ; The Monarch troops, and troops the Maid ; The Thunder huddles with the Snow.
Page 24 - Approach, my lord ! Come, in the midst of all mine ancestry, Come, and unloose me from my father's arms — Come, if you dare, and in his daughter's shame Reward him for the last drops of the blood Shed for his prince's life ! King.
Page 54 - ... and Timon's gall? And Millamant and Romeo? Into the night go one and all. Where are the braveries, fresh or frayed? The plumes, the armours — friend and foe? The cloth of gold, the rare brocade, The mantles glittering to and fro? The pomp, the pride, the royal show? The cries of war and festival? The youth, the grace, the charm, the glow? Into the night go one and all.
Page 54 - Beau; The Monarch troops, and troops the Maid; The Thunder huddles with the Snow. Where are the revellers high and low? The clashing swords? The lover's call? The dancers gleaming row on row? Into the night go one and all.
Page 20 - New Way to Pay Old Debts," the audience, indignant at his audacity, received him with coldness, but before the end of the play he had taken the house by storm. His fame spread and he was called to London, where, Feb. 17, 1817, he made his first appearance at Covent Garden theatre in the role of Richard III.
Page 46 - WE are the players of a play As old as earth, Between the wings of night and day, With tears and mirth. There is no record of the land From whence it came, No legend of the playwright's hand, No bruited fame Of those who for the piece were cast On that first night, When God drew up His curtain vast : And there was light. Before our eyes as we come on, From age to age, Flare up the footlights of the dawn On this round stage. In front, unknown, beyond the glare Vague shadows loom ; And sounds like...
Page 46 - In the first night; When God drew up his curtain vast And there was light. Before our eyes as we come on, From age to age, Flare up the footlights of the dawn, On this round stage. In front, unknown beyond the glare, Vague shadows loom, And sounds like muttering winds Are there, foreboding doom. Yet wistfully we keep the boards And, as we mend The blundering forgotten words, Hope to the end. To hear the storm beat of applause Fills our desire; Then the dark prompter gives us pause And we retire.