The Seamy Side: A Story of the True Condition of Things TheatricalPercy Ives Publishing Company, 1906 - 312 páginas |
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Página 123
... gowns , and go into a towering rage if she received more applause than he and demand of the stage manager that a rehearsal be called " to cut out superfluous business some people were unpro- fessional enough to put into their scenes ...
... gowns , and go into a towering rage if she received more applause than he and demand of the stage manager that a rehearsal be called " to cut out superfluous business some people were unpro- fessional enough to put into their scenes ...
Página 128
... gowns . " " Yes , I know , " she acquiesced dubiously , " but now we have them , and we've only worked three weeks , and we were promised ten . ” " I suppose we must count it as profit and loss , " I said , although I felt even bluer ...
... gowns . " " Yes , I know , " she acquiesced dubiously , " but now we have them , and we've only worked three weeks , and we were promised ten . ” " I suppose we must count it as profit and loss , " I said , although I felt even bluer ...
Página 136
... of the character for which I had been sent by an agent , to be considered , " but it is a very dressy one . We would expect you to spend considerable on the gowns . " I explained that I had some wardrobe , which I 136 THE SEAMY SIDE .
... of the character for which I had been sent by an agent , to be considered , " but it is a very dressy one . We would expect you to spend considerable on the gowns . " I explained that I had some wardrobe , which I 136 THE SEAMY SIDE .
Página 137
... gowns must be absolutely new and of certain design and color . Yet I was hopeful . This was the nearest I had been to an engagement that summer , all my other " nibbles " having been cut short with " not settling anything until August ...
... gowns must be absolutely new and of certain design and color . Yet I was hopeful . This was the nearest I had been to an engagement that summer , all my other " nibbles " having been cut short with " not settling anything until August ...
Página 138
... gowns . " " But I haven't that amount of money to invest at present , " I said , having visions of part , gowns , and engagement vanishing into thin air . " Well , that is your look - out , " she observed curtly . " We can get a hundred ...
... gowns . " " But I haven't that amount of money to invest at present , " I said , having visions of part , gowns , and engagement vanishing into thin air . " Well , that is your look - out , " she observed curtly . " We can get a hundred ...
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The Seamy Side: A Story of the True Condition of Things Theatrical (Classic ... H. A. Dennison Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 100 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Página 245 - It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Página 100 - And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Página 32 - ... father ; and for Henderson, — well, pleasantly, as her friend. The fine, lasting romance of their relationship was heightened almost unendurably for Shore by this threefold apprehension of it. He got up yearningly, went over to her, touched her shoulders once with his hands lightly, then put the hands in his pockets and began to pace up and down in front of her, after a habit of his. His lips shook a little, and his brow tightened and relaxed, tightened, relaxed. Once, a keen pain twitched...
Página 57 - I had a letter from her the other day, in which she wrote, " I have three silver forks which you quite ruined.
Página 74 - He had become so much a part of my daily life that I dared not give him up. "And I am ill," I whimpered, "and need someone to love me.