| 单词 | footlights |
| 例句 | He rises from his seat and moves down the aisle, stopping to pace thoughtfully in front of the orchestra pit by the footlights. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Surrounding her were candles she burned in daylight, clean yellow diamonds, footlights that ringed her, mysterious masked mother, nose and mouth veiled with a cowboy handkerchief. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The man appeared younger on the stage, his age buried under the glare of the footlights and layers of makeup. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As soon as the footlights came on, however, the production’s nontraditional emphasis became clear. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z All you had to do was avoid staring into the gas footlights, since the light might blind you and you could pitch off the stage. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z So they jumped up on the stage, ran over the footlights, and hid under the singing lady’s blue skirts. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Their eyes were like footlights, and she was right in the very middle of the stage. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z At the time no one even knew for certain that the footlights ought to be up; all there was then was Manchuria, the shock that in a way was no shock. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Reynolds shielded her eyes from the footlights to see out over the audience. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The box is dimly lit from the footlights down below. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Director Jessica Stone’s production coolly leans into the footlights and casts a slightly malevolent tone as the troupe ambles onto the stage and promises to show us a seamy reflection of ourselves. Review | Becky Sharp returns with razzmatazz in Kate Hamill’s stripped-down ‘Vanity Fair’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z "It's been a nail-biter of a week, but there's going to be an exquisite tension on the stage, and that results in a heightened attention that travels across the footlights into the audience." The show must go on: How L.A. Opera is pushing ahead as illness strikes cast 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z And Mr. Parsons’s deft, light-fingered performance makes the saintliness go down easy; there is real charm in Elwood’s little morsels of homespun wisdom when they are batted across the footlights with such guileless simplicity. Theater Review: ‘Harvey,’ With Jim Parsons, at Studio 54 2012-06-15T02:17:16Z “Can an actor cross the footlights? I thought, I bet he can.” So Long, Medical Scrubs. Jesse Williams Is Ready to Play Ball. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Printers manufactured miniature paper and wood theaters with accurate sets and costumed actors dangling on wires, footlights that burned gas or oil, and scripts for children to memorize. Antiques: ?Home Theaters? for the Victorian Age 2010-12-16T22:35:56Z It's probably too late for Elder to stamp his authority on the music-making, which is untidy, with too many notes tumbling over the footlights, rather than precisely synchronised with the pit. Fidelio ? review 2011-03-30T18:45:01Z Orli stood in the footlights, playing an air guitar; she and another toddler each began to dance. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z Davis’s set has added footlights around the stage and a good deal of height, with a pair of spiral staircases on either side of a two-level wooden structure. Sondheim’s ‘Road Show’ on the rebound at Signature 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Instead of footlights, there were the beams of headlights surrounding the makeshift stage. Beyond Broadway, the Show Does Go On 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z To come down to the footlights and accept the audience’s affection inside a Broadway theater – that didn’t come easily to me. ArtsBeat: Bette Midler Hangs Up the Phone 2013-07-02T15:46:26Z The milieu, with its vertical stripes and elaborate outfits and harsh footlights, came well-suited to the director’s house style. From tragic to magic: what's the best Disney remake so far? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z He initially trained at Rada as an actor and can therefore lay claim to experience on both sides of the footlights. Profile: Rufus Norris 2013-10-15T10:42:36Z By the end, we're rooting for all three to get their time in the footlights; all are, as we come to know them, clearly meant to be stars. June 2 at SIFF: 'Earthbound,' 'The Standbys,' more 2012-06-01T20:02:08Z Other aspects of the play are a little softened, too; the red velvet curtain and old-fashioned scallop-shell footlights lend an antique charm that frames it too quaintly. Review: ‘Happy Days,’ an Unsettling Glimpse Into the Existential Abyss 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Because it is the norm for a dozen or more photographers to be lined along the footlights, barring the general audience’s view. Critic?s Notebook: Nrityagram Dance and Other Indian Troupes in New York 2012-03-25T23:19:52Z Exotic birds from the king's menagerie strut across the "footlights," recalling the exquisite row of birds in the same position in Raphael's "Miraculous Draft of Fishes." 'Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV': Splendid pomp and circumstance at the Getty 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z It was reemergence eve for other shows that qualify as veritable city landmarks: “Wicked,” “Hamilton” and “Chicago” all marked their first performances since mid-March 2020, when a lethal virus extinguished the footlights. Perspective | ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Hamilton’ and ‘Wicked’ return to Broadway — and it’s the heart that sings 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Charming material presented charmingly and sometimes marvelously: unlike the men and women on either side of the footlights, that combination will never get old. Theater Review: ‘Closer Than Ever,’ a York Theater Musical Revue 2012-06-21T21:16:35Z It’s essential that Death charm the people beyond the footlights as much as the residents of the villa, without sugar-coating his malevolence. Death Becomes a Soaring Tenor 2011-07-17T01:00:47Z His last project, aptly enough for someone who worked just beyond the footlights, was a documentary, “Twenty Feet from Stardom,” about backup singers in the music business. Gil Friesen, Entertainment Executive, Dies at 75 2012-12-21T05:36:44Z The successful bonding agent has been not church or sports, but theater: Creede is the triumph of the Friday night footlights. Friday Night Footlights: How Theater Bonds a Colorado Town 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z In recordings, Bing Crosby or—greater still—Louis Armstrong both still sound like performers: you feel the stage and the footlights in their singing. The Pure Artistry of Frank Sinatra 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z "I would say the advice should probably be rewritten," Beaty joked to me over the weekend, confessing that, rather than relaxing her, all the naked flesh reflecting the footlights briefly made her self-conscious. Nudity on stage ? but how about off? 2011-04-04T14:17:00Z Of the go-go performance, he added: “I wish I could have fit it in New York but it makes much more sense here in the footlights of Los Angeles.” Philippe Vergne leads preview of MOCA's fresh start: 3 new shows 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The stages are ringed by footlights and beautifully illuminated by lighting from above. Dance Review: Cunningham Dance Company Offers Finality and Contentment 2011-12-30T14:27:41Z The husband and wife who earn their living before the footlights in this backstage romance are striking poses and reaching for effects even when their only audience is a hand mirror. | 'The Guardsman': In the Berkshires, Revisiting Molnar?s ?Guardsman? 2010-07-19T21:49:00Z The skill of a news reader does not automatically translate to the transaction that occurs across the footlights. Perspective | Listen in as Dan Rather anchors the story of his own highly theatrical life 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z He used night lights along the stage rim as footlights, and turned pine cones into finials for a doorway. Antiques: A Fantasy Movie House Is Saved From Extinction 2010-09-16T21:00:00Z Whether singing or delivering her often self-deprecating patter, Ms. Chenoweth always radiates a pleasure in performing that carries across the proverbial footlights. Review: Kristin Chenoweth, That Perky Performer With the Powerhouse Pipes 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z When a zealous stagehand scrubbed it clean, the chorus "one by one shot gloriously down the stage to join their colleagues in a struggling heap at the footlights". Roger Butlin obituary 2011-08-17T17:52:04Z His many years on the other side of the footlights, however, may account for those indulgent, drawn-out monologues. In Rogue Machine's harrowing 'Daytona,' revenge rings the doorbell 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The theater requires intellectual and emotional commitment on both sides of the footlights, and nothing sparks participation quite like the recognition that comes from seeing oneself in a wider frame. Center Theatre Group's starry 50th: From offending Ronald Reagan to Trump-era provocations 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z The Met stage comprises seven lifts that run parallel to the footlights. Metropolitan Opera Embarks on $60 Million Renovation 2012-12-05T23:10:28Z As it happened, though, my first experience of Ms. Harris in the flesh was not across the footlights. Critic’s Notebook: Luminous Julie Harris, Close Up and Afar 2013-08-25T21:50:35Z Painted when Picasso was only 23, it depicts a tall, gaunt actor dressed in a commedia dell’arte costume leaning out across the footlights of a stage. Damaged Picasso Returns to the Met After Repair 2010-04-20T15:28:00Z As Mr. Lester’s Aldridge, illuminated by footlights, takes us through the fabled handkerchief scene of “Othello,” it stirs up an excitement that frightens. Theater Review: ‘Red Velvet’ Recalls One Shocked London Audience 2014-04-01T13:23:28Z Onstage, the client, Barbra Streisand, shaded her eyes at one point and pointed toward Mr. Sacks just beyond the footlights. Albert M. Sack, Antiques Dealer and Author, Dies at 96 2011-06-01T02:52:28Z And when a little clutch of footlights suddenly emerge from the floor of the promenade, Graney plays plenty of homage to the source. 'Pirates of Penzance': Wasting away in Gilbert and Sullivanville 2010-12-15T22:44:16Z Alexander Dodge’s plush and funny design features an old music-hall stage, footlights and all, with video projections from Aaron Rhyne that bring a delightful comic snap to many of the murders. Tony winner ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ is good but not a killer 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “I decided to be on the other side of the footlights and got the background a young person couldn’t get today,” he once recalled. Elliot Martin, Prolific Theater Producer, Dies at 93 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The setting is the hotheaded 1950s Italy of a Fellini film, which makes it doubly surprising that so little sensuality crosses the footlights. Review: ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Human Animals.’ 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Wisely, he embraced it as the frothy entertainment it is, setting its antics and merry dances behind army-drum footlights against a handsome false proscenium. Critic?s Notebook: An Orphan, a Libertine and the Walking Dead 2011-06-19T22:11:24Z And what we see, in their faces and bodies, and feel — in the less easily described energy that reaches across the footlights — is a harsh and beautiful muddle. Review: Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Undone by ‘Betrayal’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z They performed original plays and music with bonfire footlights. When the Light, Shadow and Stars Aligned: Standing Where Ansel Adams Stood 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z But most of his film and television roles were ridiculously inferior to his talent, and he never really ventured decisively beyond the footlights, where he reigned supreme – but only sporadically. John Wood obituary 2011-08-10T14:21:55Z Teachout is the Wall Street Journal’s drama critic, so naturally the theatrical community is paying avid attention to his first venture across the footlights. Theater review: 'Satchmo at the Waldorf' at the Wallis Annenberg Center 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It is all stagey – set behind footlights – but what a performance! Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z This is that rare “Streetcar,” in my experience, to cross the footlights less as Blanche’s tragedy than as a wounding portrait of communal loss. Gillian Anderson Stars in ‘Streetcar Named Desire’ at Young Vic 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z He is the Los Angeles Chargers, playing in the footlights of Hollywood on a roster that’s dwindled to just two holdovers from the San Diego days. Nothing has changed for Justin Herbert except for bank account and expectations 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z “It’s like waves of love coming over the footlights.” Perspective | What are we clapping for? America’s sad compulsion to applaud. 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z This approach really spoke to Sink, a former theater kid who would like to return to the footlights soon. Sadie Sink finds moments of humor as she unleashes the rage in 'The Whale' 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Wade, the cast and the audience at L.A.’s Fountain Theatre discussed the ruling across the footlights, right in the middle of a live show. L.A.’s Fountain Theatre responds to the fall of Roe with part obituary, part call to action 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Elsewhere are 11 bedrooms, 8.5 bathrooms, a grand salon, library and theater with original footlights and a bar. Kat Von D wants $15 million for historic Victorian with blood-red pool 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z With heels stomping and her hair waving, she owns the stage to such a degree that you half expect bank lenders to materialize by the footlights to sign over the deed. Review: In ‘Tina,’ the final word from a legendary survivor 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Lovers of musicals will groove on the shamelessness of its footlights worship. Review | ‘The Prom’ — a campy, sentimental slab of Broadway cake — is as sweet as you’ve heard 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z She steps forward, toward the footlights, and performs a dance, then introduces herself in the droning style of an ancient soliloquy. In Rural Japan, a 370-Year-Old Tradition Falls to One Child 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Around the broadcast of the Spitting Image at 30 special half-hour show in 2014, Newsnight described the influential show as "a hybrid of Cambridge footlights, English caricature and Punch and Judy". Spitting Image to return on BritBox 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z There were also no emergency lights or footlights. The film tickets that destroyed a family 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The love flowing over the footlights might be addictive, but it comes at an unfathomable cost, twin realities that Zellweger expresses with subtlety and skill. Review | In ‘Judy,’ Renée Zellweger is a dazzling, drug-addicted Judy Garland 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The Taper stage is remade to look old-fashioned: enveloped in rich wood and outfitted with clamshell footlights and a crimson curtain. Review: Dianne Wiest faces an apocalypse in Beckett’s ‘Happy Days’ 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Brandli disguises her political pungency with comedy — the perfect medium to massage an important message across the footlights. 99-Seat Beat: Genderless space creatures, mythic New Jerseyites, bickering Hungarians, and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Citing a maxim popular at Brunswick — “Never get between a client and the footlights” — he declined to be quoted. A Crisis Management Guru Bungles a Crisis 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Songs such as “You’ll Never Walk Alone” soared over Broadway’s footlights, taking on a life of their own as free-floating anthems. The great second act of Rodgers and Hammerstein 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z From the audience side of the footlights, it's immediately clear that this rooming arrangement will end badly. A man of power, a woman with aspirations, and a play that painfully echoes today's headlines – LA Times 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z The idea was to “immediately kick down the footlights and say, ‘O.K., you’re here, you can see me—we’re all in this room together.’ ” A Protest Musical for the Trump Era 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z As he later put it in the song: “Tonight I’ll kick the footlights out and try to hide the mood I’m really in.” The Writin’ Side of Merle Haggard 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Just before New Year’s Ms. DesRoche took Rose to the theater for a taste of the footlights. Enter Rose, a Broadway Rat With a Past 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z For the first time, it was possible to properly televise night-time sporting events, parades on gray days or theatrical performances lit by ordinary footlights. This Is How the Emmy Awards Got Their Name 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The dramatist was thinking about the footlights, not the footnotes. Things Shakespeare Got Wrong About the Ides of March 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z In 1893, at the National School in Grays, Essex, during a performance of The Story of a Christmas Pudding, a boy called Frederick Smith strayed too near the footlights and his costume was rapidly ablaze. Victorian Strangeness: Four Christmas incidents 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z He was defiant and true to his sometimes negligent Muse until the very end: “Tonight we’ll kick the footlights out and walk away without a curtain call.” The Writin’ Side of Merle Haggard 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z But, instead of the abstract “theatre” space that makes up the set of “The American Dream”—footlights, a couple of chairs—“A Delicate Balance” opens in a “large and well-appointed suburban house.” Edward Albee’s Bad Marriages 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z From the footlights to the family circle, the house was packed. How Mark Twain became Mark Twain: The amazing story of the lectures that made him a superstar 2014-03-22T20:00:00Z The trial, on charges of pilfering food from the governor’s kitchen, will return all the players to the footlights just a few weeks before Mr. Cuccinelli faces Terry McAuliffe, his Democratic opponent, at the polls. Virginia’s Attorney General Faces Scrutiny for Ties to Executive 2013-07-16T01:40:48Z A level played underwater looks extraordinary, but it is also classic Call of Duty, exciting and engaging, a piece of grand theatre in which the player is squarely in the footlights. Call of Duty: Ghosts – preview 2013-05-25T23:01:05Z One man, a poor, struggling devil, a genius of the footlights, wrote him encouraging words, not failing to ask for a dollar by way of compensating postscript. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Sylvia’s earlier experience had led her to suppose that the quantity of make-up and proximity to the footlights were the most important things in art. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Until now she had discouraged all introductions effected by the footlights, and she often marveled to Sylvia at the way other girls accepted invitations to private houses without knowing anything about their hosts. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z Few men could approach him in such perfect technique of the footlights. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z But that foolish contact had rung up the curtain on a transformation scene, whose footlights needed, at least, a good make-up for the facing of them. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z They would not let me go out over the footlights, so I picked up the boy and gave him to a man and told him to rush the boy out into the alley. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Modern science, said Mallock, put out the footlights of life's stage when it denied religion. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z At the same time, she had begun to hear girls in the company talk about "getting across the footlights" and had realized that her own personality's powers of projection were still untested. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z It was, I believe, his only appearance before the footlights in public, and it was a part in which he had not a line to speak. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z Then the local manager took the little girl in his arms, stepped over the footlights, and handed her to the man who had claimed her. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z I then rushed out to the footlights and called out to the audience, 'Keep very quiet. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z She may not be the slender, dainty, blue-eyed, flaxen-haired girl of the footlights; she is often mature and stout and a lover of potatoes. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z There was beginning to be no doubt that even from the chorus of a musical comedy company on tour her personality was getting across the footlights. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z It is far easier, I think, to improvise on the stage than it is away from the footlights, and I well remember my dilemma when I was once invited to an "at home." The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z The little girl, hearing the cry, with one hand still in the air where the kisses had stopped half blown away, looked at the man over the footlights, half-dazed, apparently, by the situation. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z I continued on with the rest of the business, and me and my partner, as I always had done in that number, went down to the footlights. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z On the stage, back of what had once been the footlights and in the same place where the darling Carmencita had once been wont to make her bow, stood a shirt-sleeved gang-boss. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z Two men were talking earnestly, seated at a table in the centre of the stage near the footlights. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z I cannot say that my love of the footlights was inherited, but at least it began to show itself at a very early age. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z The audience stared likewise with suspended hearts from the great but mimic figure of murder on one side of the footlights to the greater and real figure of murder upon the other. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z When I first came out to the footlights about 300 persons had left the theater or were leaving it. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z No new thrill came into the words she spoke; her eyes, as they looked across the footlights, remembered nothing, had nothing new to tell. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z About me whirls The sombre hall, the gaudy stage, the harsh glare of the footlights, And in the brains of thousands watching Little flames leap quivering to the music of my effort. Irradiations; Sand and Spray 2012-02-14T03:00:28.347Z For every young artist who comes for the first time before the footlights, may I bespeak always the same kindly feeling? The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z At rise, footlights and first border white and amber full up. Green Stockings A Comedy in Three Acts 2012-01-28T03:00:24.297Z "At the first sign of danger, after reaching the footlights, I said to Dillea, our orchestra leader: "'An overture, Herbert, an overture.' Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z To bring a creature from behind the footlights and make her mistress of Kencote—a soiled woman—that's what she is, even if she has never sold herself—and who knows that she hasn't? The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z We had curtains which drew back and forth, and regular footlights. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Then you had trouble with that big ruffian who climbed over the footlights with the avowed purpose of breaking up the show.” Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star 2012-01-20T03:00:15.013Z "I suppose so," Sarah allowed; "it's a common saying that the way to the footlights in the Majestic is through the manager's private room." A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z The annals of the stage are replete with dark pages that cause the tragedy of the mimic drama depicted behind the footlights to pale and shrivel into comparative nothingness. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Mrs. Gilbert held a unique position on the American stage, on account of the admiration, esteem and affection which she enjoyed both in front and behind the footlights. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z They fell on the boxrail among the roses, and pushed off one white beauty, which landed on the stage close to the footlights; but I had no time to yearn for that rose just then. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z “Oh, well,” smiled Merry, in a peculiar way, “that fellow went right back over the footlights.” Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star 2012-01-20T03:00:15.013Z It was the only way which his purblind male instinct pointed him, to find an outlet for what goes from me over the footlights night by night. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z The star, with Mr. Murdoch and Mrs. Farren, joined hands, walked to the footlights and begged the audience to go out in an orderly manner. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z We know what was around him, the scene on which he played, the other actors in the great drama, and we recognise himself on the stage; but away from the footlights he remains in darkness. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z One evening he was arrested for debt while acting on the stage, by a sheriff’s officer, who sprang from the pit over the orchestra and footlights to secure his prisoner. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z At length the footlights went up, the curtain went up. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z I confess that I was less interested in what was going on on the stage than in the play that was revealed between the box and the footlights. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z I says: "Take this boy out," and ran out on the footlights to the audience. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Like Harlequin, bounding from the sides and capering before the footlights, this new species makes a sudden apparition. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Floss had stepped, triumphant, from the footlights to the registrar's office, and apparently had succeeded in uniting the radiance of her past and present status. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z “Of course,” said Uncle Robert, “and footlights and everything.” The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins 2011-11-29T03:00:16.213Z She was thinking how pleasant it would be to hear an orchestra play, to see a curtain rise, to watch a drama roll its story out, behind vivid footlights, between painted scenes. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z "You had it right, all to the singing," commented Mrs. M'Evoy, advancing as it were to the footlights. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z My own hair was so dark as to look almost black behind the footlights, and in my mind there was no doubt that Marguerite must be a blond. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z The student should know what the dramatist intends to get across the footlights to his audience, and should be able to detect how he accomplishes the desired result. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z There was a real stage, and before it a long green tin that the girls knew concealed the footlights. The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins 2011-11-29T03:00:16.213Z They only have to make up to look well behind the footlights; but I have to expose myself to that beastly sun. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z Suddenly the footlights shot up, sending a thrill of expectancy through the audience. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z One didn't know stage people; one couldn't speak to them, nor shake hands with them, nor even look at them except from a safe distance across the footlights. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z His lounging was now, however, quite freely punctuated by interruptions and not infrequently by scramblings over the footlights to illustrate a fine point. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z I honestly feared that I might prove the superfluous veteran who has no business behind the footlights. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z He comes to the footlights and talks, turns out his pockets and tells you the history of the contents, or gossips of the ways of sailors, and you gather round like children at a fair. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z As the orchestra broke into the familiar opening bars of "The President's March," and Fox, slender and debonair, bowed from behind the footlights, the audience grew hushed with expectancy. Gentlemen Rovers 2011-10-22T02:00:27.907Z Certainly I had no thought for anyone who might be seated out in the Great Beyond on the far side of the footlights. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Across the footlights it looked like a brilliantly realistic piece of acting, and the audience was astonished at the vigor of the hitherto cold Americano. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z The mass of printed programs that lie before me tell of brilliant success before the footlights—and hint at long hours of nerve-racking rehearsals. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z For the first time in his life he stood before the footlights of public observation and expectation. Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College 2011-10-08T02:00:24.723Z But her greatest triumph was a certain minuet step which she executed along the edge of the footlights, first from right to left, and then back again. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z In the old days at the Academy, however, we had no system of lighting except glaring footlights and perhaps a single, unimaginative calcium. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Meanwhile the Lord Mayor had climbed the few steps, and taken his stand under the grimy portico, behind the footlights improvised by half-a-dozen policemen with their bull's-eyes. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z The most noteworthy feature is a vicious-looking row of four searchlights, near together and spaced at even intervals, like a line of footlights at a theatre. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z “It 67 was that the piece which reads smoothly seldom acts well; whereas a play that ‘gets over the footlights’ usually reads poorly. The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z The N.F.L. knows better than to shine the footlights on the final exhibition games, in which starters parade the sidelines in baseball caps and coaches keep the real playbooks locked in the file cabinet. The Fifth Down: Final Week of Preseason: Theater of the Absurd 2011-09-03T16:11:59Z When I had finished singing, a man in the audience stepped down to the footlights and held up a five-dollar bill. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Aintree hesitated, and then pointed to the stage, where the manager had advanced to the footlights and was explaining that the author was not in the house. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z As he stepped forward to face the great curtain of faces that stretched outward and upward beyond the footlights, he had not known what he should say. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z She dismounted and advanced to the footlights, extended her hands, and in a few words begged the audience to be calm. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z In the Prefaces to his Almanac, Poor Richard manages to keep both his wife Bridget and himself close to the footlights. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z The engagement opened fairly punctually with a furious pianoforte bombardment, accompanied by asphyxiating footlights. Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 19, 1916 2011-08-07T02:00:07.573Z A little stage was arranged every day with the suitable footlights. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Behind the footlights every night, what time has actor or actress to realize the great ends of life as something real, and not a show with its pretended tragedy or farce? Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z When you are acting, it is not always easy—especially if you are in earnest—to single out particular individuals from the motley mass in front of the footlights. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z They withstood, first of all, the ordeal by fire before the footlights of the theater, and they were able thereafter also to resist the touchstone of time in the library. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z A young friend of ours who was taking part in some private theatricals obtained the loan of a row of electric footlights. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z The stage came forward to about the middle of the area; so that a line bisecting the house would have coincided with the line of footlights, if there had been such things. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Then she stepped into the glare of the footlights. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z The footlights were lowered, a smoke arose behind the wings, strange lurid colors were cast upon the figure of the soldier magician. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z "It's only when the stage-carpenters have to rest and get their breath that I have a chance to come down to the footlights and bark for a minute or two." A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z When the footlights were turned up they blazed for a brief period, and then every light in the house went 82 out! Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z This hall runs clear down the stage to within the width of a narrow 434 street of the footlights. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Deep banks of chairs radiated back from the footlights, to each its tenant staring greedily in one common direction. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Strangely absorbed, quite callous of his two companions, Lord George gazed over the footlights. The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale For Tired Men 2011-06-24T02:00:21.977Z Great power, I understand, is hidden in your country; but, as the actors say, you cannot get it across the footlights. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z Did the Egyptians and Persians know how to make cotton-cloth a yard wide—I have measured their costumes too often behind the footlights not to know the exact measurement. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Among her other talents, Mamma Francoise numbered that power, as useful off the stage as it is profitable behind the footlights—the power to play a part. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z Through the glare of footlights the auditorium was vaguely revealed, a vast and gloomy amphitheatre dotted with an infinite, orderly multitude of round pink spots, and still with the hush of expectancy. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Suddenly she had the feeling that she used to have when she had left the tense concentrated glare of the footlights and passed into the relief of the shadowy wings. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Perched on a corner of the roof he regarded them with two bright beady eyes, as a singer 185 standing behind the footlights might take stock of his audience. The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine 2011-06-05T02:00:14.760Z She seemed a mere child there behind the footlights, not more than sixteen anyway—her winsome eyes and wistful lips unspoiled by the world's wisdom. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z The light is neither the sunlight of common day nor ‘the moonlight of romance,’ but the glare of innumerable gas lamps,—the rays from the footlights to which he was about to betake himself. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z To be desired by one man only stimulated her longing to be desired inaccessibly—beyond the impregnable barrier of footlights—by all men. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z I know I am better looking behind the footlights,” Polly now urged almost plaintively, for her younger sister was making her decidedly nervous by her continued scrutiny. The Camp Fire Girls' Careers 2011-05-27T02:00:15.330Z If I could have reached you you should have had the biggest basket of pretty vegetables that was ever handed over the footlights. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z She did her work close to the footlights. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z At the end of each act huge stands and forms of flowers were sent up over the footlights and placed on the stage. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z His work was loosely constructed, and his lines were not all of them of the kind that readily cross the footlights. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z I earned it before the footlights, but honestly! Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z They came close to the footlights and placed huge piles of stage money side by side. The Boy Grew Older 2011-05-10T02:01:01.027Z There they lay, broken bits of her own sculptured body, glistening in a heap behind the footlights. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z The band of the 7th Regiment approached the footlights, and the musicians played a march that Cappa, the bandmaster, had composed in honour of Mdme. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z I used to send over for Della whenever there was a little part for her, and she was delighted to get away from school and skip and trip before the footlights. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z The other poor creature kept her hands before her face as a screen from the flames, missed her footing, stumbled over the footlights and fell among the orchestra chairs. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z With the restoration of the light the president of the college stepped to the front of the platform and presented me to the audience, after which I rose and approached the footlights to begin. From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z I say, to carry Wilde's voice across the footlights: that is exactly what his plays do. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z He stroked them, and faced them toward the footlights so that their eyes should not be dazzled by seeing them suddenly. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z In other words, in spite of her five years behind the footlights, she still lacks experience. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z You might make a brilliant success, if you ever decide to go before the footlights. Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration 2011-05-02T02:00:20.220Z She was to Mason, probably, only a neutral spot in the glorious band of color, which swept in a graceful curve back from the footlights. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Some were taken from the English stage, some from the French; all served as the machinery to keep an audience interested and carry Wilde's voice across the footlights. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z In a theatrical sense, it is used to denote the footlights. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Soon the pretense will be ended, and I shall be only too happy if you have lost the glamour of the footlights by that time. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z The orchestra pit and the footlights still stand as moats to keep us at our distance. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z If the stage has no trap door, a bridge is built across the footlights with stairs leading down into the orchestra pit. Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" 2011-03-28T02:00:20.647Z Every one of his plays has seen the footlights. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z The production was a most artistic one, and attracted a very distinguished audience: everybody of any consequence in the world of art, literature, and the stage, flocked to see Punch behind the footlights. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z Even in a thoroughly well-acted play a perceptible shudder runs through the audience when two actors select each a chair, draw them down to the footlights, and one announces “’Tis now some fourteen years ago.” Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z I know that the play has its underplot of vicious poverty and crime, but they shrink from the glare of the footlights and the radiance of the red fire that lights up the scene. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z There is the vision of the music halls: wheels of fire revolve round a house, blazing letters climb up façades and lure the crowds to sit in front of the brilliant footlights. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z It was a fairy-tale out of the thousand and one nights, into which now the sober illumination of the footlights fell. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z The Teutonic grimness of the work puzzled the Parisians, who are not used to having philosophy thrust at them over the footlights; but in Germany “Frühlings Erwachen” proved much more successful. The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z But in this case gambolling behind the footlights is responsible for the present display of the Dankmere family pictures in the converted real-estate offices of young Mr. Quarren of cotillion fame. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z But behind the footlights of Gallipoli we had found real burning temptations; and we had found our characters. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z She had to come chassezing down the stage, and she never raised her eyelids—before most demurely cast down—until she was close upon the footlights. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z It rankled; and it continued to rankle all through the jokes and songs and horseplay of the company behind the footlights that Saturday night. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Many an actor has strode valiantly from wings to footlights only to find his tongue glued to the roof of his mouth. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z The world's as full of curves as I am; plumpness to the verge of redundancy is supposed to be popular among men; a well-filled stocking behind the footlights sets the gaby agape. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z For Thrall's was the artificial youth of the wig, the grease paint; of skilful costuming and brilliant acting; a youth that does not care to come quite down to the footlights. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z The footlights seem an obstacle which it is impossible to surmount; possession appears an infeasible, madly absurd dream, the very thought of which produces vertigo. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z Then the lines were rich, forceful and flowing—strange with a poetic quality that "got across the footlights." She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z It ran like this: A handsome young Irishman of humble parentage had long yearned for the footlights. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z When I ceased to be a pitite, and my connections with the press thrust me a few feet nearer the footlights, half the pleasure of theatre-going vanished, never to return. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z And Lord! what a face for the footlights! A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z Rows of microphones were installed in the theatres across the front of the stage in between the footlights. Ancient iPhone 2010-05-17T09:35:00Z We have a stage with footlights, and a serviceable piano. With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War He wished he could have assured her that he had admired her before the footlights ...! The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode Do I not best know the words and the phrases which will carry the messages of my play across the footlights? The Hillman Mr Belke means that he wants footlights and an orchestra and an audience before he mutters 'Hush! The Spy in Black And the general effect of Miss Million's maid at that moment was of something rather pretty and fetching in the stage-lady's maid line, from behind the footlights at Daly's. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune Nowadays footlights are not invariably discarded, but where they are used they are wired so that groups of them can be lighted when other sections are dimmed or darkened. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors Her art—had it a place within those weary wheels of thought; her success on the stage, the triumphs of the footlights—illusory, but so real in seeming, so satisfying and complete? The Gay Adventure A Romance "If you would pardon me, M. Graillot," he ventured timidly, "the footlights are quite unprotected, as you see." The Hillman And when, as happened almost nightly, some admirer gave a basket or bouquet of costly flowers to an usher to be passed up over the footlights to her, they were usually tied with tartan ribbon. Rockhaven "I wish some guy would slip me a beef-steak over the footlights some time instead of flowers." A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life At the theatre we ought to forget, as much as possible, that the actors behind the footlights are rouged and obey the prompter's voice instead of the dictates of their own hearts. The Children of the World The footlights were hidden behind a screen of foliage and flowering shrubs. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The phrase which would find its way at once to the brain of the French audience needs, shall I say, just a little amplification to carry equal weight across the footlights of my theater. The Hillman And thus is it the world goes on, as unreal, as fictitious, as visionary as anything there ever was put on the stage and illuminated by footlights. Tony Butler Knew beforehand that the footlights might have sold him, but finds her very charming. Last Words You—a Levantine dancing girl—a common painted thing of the public footlights—a creature of brasserie and cabaret! The Moonlit Way Now and again Henry's eyes seemed to look for those of Madame Bourjot, over the footlights. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The pale sun of November was lighting up the streets with the almost mystic whiteness of the footlights. A Bed of Roses Flowers came over the footlights, the like of which I had never seen in my life before—great baskets of hot-house beauties, some of them costing more than I earned in a week. Life on the Stage Yet the Touchstone who danced gracefully out before the footlights on the occasion of the real performance was a different Touchstone. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines There was even a false set of footlights to complete the masquerade; a row of oil lamps with tin reflectors. The Book of Susan A Novel The stage manager came forward to the footlights and inquired what was wanted. Cordwood In one opera the stage director told him to go to the back of the stage before singing his principal number and then walk straight down to the footlights and deliver the aria. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists I knew all about footlights, wings, flies, borders, drops, braces, grooves, traps, etc. Life on the Stage Those manuscripts I locked up in my escritoire, vowing that the comedy should never see the footlights of a theatre again. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second She selected the finest rose, and, advancing to the footlights, handed it to the leader of the orchestra to be passed on to the flute player. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday Massinger was in his right place, such as it was; and one would not disturb the gentle Ford, who was never born to storm the footlights. The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded Night after night I played 'cello in the orchestra at La Scala, in Milan, always wishing and praying that I might some day be one of the actors in the wonderful world behind the footlights. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists It has all the smell of the orange-peel and the footlights about it, and never can be mistaken by any one who knows the world. Jack Hinton The Guardsman Shuts out the rest of the world and gives her a chance to make a man focus on her—see her behind the footlights. The Garden of Eden They might desire applause over the footlights, but under the moon they were free from the necessity for favor. Carnival The old dame rewarded the house in general with a false-teeth smile on receiving them over the footlights, which must have discouraged my admirer as the flowers stopped abruptly. Confessions of an Opera Singer With eighteen members on the program, the singer has a musical, mental and vocal task which devolves entirely upon herself without the aid of chorus, co-singers, orchestra, costumes, scenery and the glamour of the footlights. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists There were footlights, and seats in front of them for spectators. Interpreters Before the door burned a blink of fire that revealed the dwelling and its tattered alcove of sewn leaves, as if the scene had been set with footlights. Where the Pavement Ends But if her personality did not carry over the footlights and reach the mighty audience of Drury Lane, behind the scenes it gradually detached itself from the huge crowd of girls. Carnival One night the largest Italian stepped into a depression near the footlights, caught his foot, squawked loudly and passed on. Confessions of an Opera Singer During the rests I dreamt of the time when I might become a singer like those over the footlights. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists "Once for all," said Paten,—and there was impatience in his tone,—"I tell you she is a greater actress than any of your tragedy queens behind the footlights." One Of Them "The Great Director does not permit the audience behind the footlights, unless he calls them," answered Biggs whimsically, the ghost of a smile lighting up his troubled features. The Doors of Death But what Jenny loved most were the fairy entrances of Columbine, as, like a pink feather, she danced before the footlights and in and out of the shops. Carnival He had not passed it over the footlights, so that every one might see its splendour, but had left it at her rooms. Confessions of an Opera Singer They know the music of the footlights, but there their experience ends. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists She would nerve herself to courage before the footlights. Black Diamonds Owing to the reflection of the footlights and the paint on her face all that was visible of the latter was the expression and the smile. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels The picture culminates on the extreme right, with the result that attention is directed there and that any object in that section of the picture benefits by an influence about equivalent to that of footlights. A Novelist on Novels He stood near the footlights with his eyes on the conductor, as we usually do when running over a familiar r�le with an unfamiliar conductor. Confessions of an Opera Singer The singer is no longer a parrot with little or nothing to do but come before the footlights and sing a few beautiful tones to a few gesticulations. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists You will when you get accustomed to the footlights. Black Diamonds And yet the charmed barrier of the footlights surrounded her with a flame of mystery. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) This is as good as a play," cried one of the Williams girls, "a real play behind footlights, to sit here and look on at this little comedy of curiosity. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days Arrived at Prague I went straight to the theatre, the old one with gas lamps for footlights. Confessions of an Opera Singer My Scotch-Presbyterian parents would have been horrified if they had had any idea that they were helping me to a career that was in any way related to the footlights. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists When it finished there would be a prospect of an engagement for her if she first learned the routine of acting at some less important theatre, and grew accustomed to the footlights. Black Diamonds Since the whole story is shown before the footlights, scenes and acts are such divisions as shall best mark off and properly accentuate the stages of the story, as it is unfolded. How to See a Play These lamps are the footlights the miners hold up to Old King Coal as they pierce his sides with their electric drills, and wrench open his wounds with their ripping charges of dynamite. Seeds of Pine There are certain props that lend an unfailing air of gorgeousness to the provincial German mind, whether viewed from in front of, or behind the footlights. Confessions of an Opera Singer The delicate little effects that the concert singer is obliged to produce would not be heard over the footlights. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists The drawer box is now placed on a table or chair near the footlights. Peerless Prestidigitation Being a collection of entirely new ideas and effects in the fascinating art of modern magic "Mademoiselle, you are the most amiable creature I know between the footlights and the cloth," he replied. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections And with what reason should this be the Paradise of all who have lived and sighed, and warbled and pirouetted, within the charmed circle of the footlights? Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Then, without speaking, she turned and walked up-stage, her back to the footlights. The Destroying Angel In due course, however, she was whisked away from the footlights and sent abroad to be educated. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 It was his experience in performances like this that helped him to make his start when he finally decided—as such a throng have done before him—to abandon law in favor of the footlights. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 I was not mistaken; the scent or the smell of the footlights was over it all. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections The sight of the billboards and of the theaters themselves, reawakened the old craving to strut behind the footlights. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 Whitaker received an impression as of a tremendous force at work across the footlights. The Destroying Angel To receive a smile over the footlights from one of the company also brings luck. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 And, by the way, more men have turned away from the sheepskin to the footlights than from any other one vocation. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 It seems to me very doubtful whether the spectators would not be constantly thinking of scenes enacted in other spots than behind the footlights. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections A crimson flower is in the dark hair, and the footlights cast an artificial amber glow on the face. Artists Past and Present Random Studies Suddenly ceasing to speak, she turned down to a chair near the footlights, followed by a torrent of shrill vituperation under the lash of which she quivered like a whipped thoroughbred. The Destroying Angel All the ferocity of final crisis swirled and eddied about the bridge upon which we looked as men in orchestra chairs might look across the footlights on a stage set for melodrama. The Portal of Dreams Amateur theatricals at college are responsible for the lure that drew him to the professional footlights. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 She would never again skip airily behind the footlights of the Wellington, or any other important theater in England. The Silent Barrier Such an official I never remember to have read of, though I have seen the like, from across the footlights and the orchestra, evolving in similar figures to the strains of Offenbach. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Seated as he was so near the stage, Whitaker's face stood out in rugged relief, illumined by the glow reflected from the footlights. The Destroying Angel The crowning effect of this parody was the appearance of the prompter himself before the footlights. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day It was too brightly lit and the footlights threw an uncompromising glare upon the tiny stage. The Wishing Moon The world, the flesh, and the devil lurk in the larynx of the soprano or alto, and her place is before the footlights, not as a vocal staircase to paradise. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Every man, especially, was doing exactly what he would have done and said if there had been footlights and an audience in front, only not one of them knew that this was so. The Co-Citizens The actress had glanced across the footlights; Whitaker could not but follow the direction of her gaze; the eyes of both focussed for a brief instant on the empty aisle-seat in the fourth row. The Destroying Angel An estimable woman, but large, determined, little suggesting the butterfly of the footlights I married, long before. Seven Keys to Baldpate The boy came closer still to the footlights and leaned across them, pausing and deliberately choosing his words. The Wishing Moon The da�s was the stage, with three footlights. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) Very sorry," said the Stage Manager, addressing the audience from behind the footlights, "but, Ladies and Gentlemen, we have no option. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 When eventually a second figure appeared before the footlights, the audience seemed to understand that Max dared not show himself again, and why. The Destroying Angel Aurora, unable to see beyond the footlights, had never dreamed but Gerald was among the audience. Aurora the Magnificent Pale and intent, the boy looked across the footlights at Green River. The Wishing Moon Hand in hand, they have come to the footlights, hand in hand they have walked before us. In the Heart of a Fool The echoes of her last speech died away; she looked at him across the footlights, her dark eyes soft with many regrets, which, consciously or not, spoke to him also of reproach. Berenice Beyond the dismal gutter of the footlights the auditorium yawned cavernous and shadowy, peopled only by low rows of chairs ghostly in their dust-cloths. The Destroying Angel The Embassy Terrace put out lamps of its own closer to the ground, but more gorgeous––irises in a row of blue, blue footlights. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards He was not an imposing figure as he stood there, only a lean, eager boy, with dark, flashing eyes, and a face that was very pale in the glare of the footlights. The Wishing Moon Farwell, after months of the rôle of the Southern country gentleman, had suddenly yielded to the irresistible lure of the footlights, and was once more making his final appearance upon any stage. Kildares of Storm I think he was near making a leap for the footlights and confronting Morrison on his own boards; but the orchestra came between, and the fiddlers rose in their places. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly A thought later, while still all were blinking and gasping with surprise, Max strode into view just behind the footlights. The Destroying Angel They “get across the footlights” between each player on the human stage and his audience. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Tiny balloons are started with long streamers of colored ribbon attached; jewelry in the shape of bracelets and rings is conveyed over the footlights; in short, these Spaniards are sometimes extraordinarily demonstrative. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Densher saw himself for the moment as in his purchased stall at the play; the watchful manager was in the depths of a box and the poor actress in the glare of the footlights. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II We talked for a long time on "pictures"—he was so happy and earnest about it that it was some time before we made an attempt to tread the boards and get behind the footlights. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Beyond the footlights a handful of sophisticated and sceptical habitués of the theatre forgot for the moment their ingrained incredulity and thrilled in sympathy with the wonderful rapture of that voice of eternal Youth. The Destroying Angel The lights in the theatre were lowered, leaving only the bright, warm glow of the footlights on the heavy curtain. Changing Winds A Novel There was a full-fledged stage and footlights, and the scenery, some one said, was painted by a man from Munich. Dreamers of the Ghetto As he lingered in the Lorimers' box, watching the young German come forward to the footlights, Thayer was ready to predict a fair measure of lasting popularity to his friend. The Dominant Strain At night—the footlights; by day—home and children. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Ah! what enchantment to stand in the coulisses and hold her wraps while she floated near the footlights on the pinions of song. Melomaniacs In the place of stage, an arbor; Summer sun in place of footlights; Thus we rear Thalia's temple Where we play our private dramas, Gentle, saddening, precocious.... The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays The orchestra, or rather string quartet, had ceased; Hans, a host in himself, a mountain of melody, bowed his acknowledgments; the footlights 130 glared, the din of voices subsiding; and the curtain rose. The Strollers It's such beastly personal work; all the nooks and corners of your individuality show up across the footlights. The Dominant Strain A girl from some far city she was; a small star that had twinkled behind the footlights and had fled––or had fallen––to the Black Rim country. Rim o' the World Often while I am in the middle of a speech, my officious friend at the footlights has already whispered the remainder, besides uttering the words which belong to the next speaker. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba The stage shows an open stretch of rolling ground that slopes gradually toward the footlights. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays Cool the wind blows, fresh in our facet, Cleansing, entrancing, After the heat and the fumes and the footlights, Where you dance and I watch your dancing. Silhouettes Presently the footlights reappeared as abruptly as they had vanished and the torches were extinguished. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 In the sham, tawdry world of the footlights she feels something akin to her whole being. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real The prompter is seated under a cupola in the centre of the stage near the footlights, as at the opera, and his duties are arduous. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba The pit climbed over the footlights, determined to make the insolent actor offer apologies: he refused. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 As a rule, he treats me like a third-row dancing girl that goes to petition the manager for a place nearer the footlights. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess The footlights were suddenly switched off and each of the six produced a small electric torch and illuminated his neighbour's features. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 For footlights we fastened candles on the floor, placing each candle between three nails. Adventures and Recollections She is right at the footlights; her face, brows drawn together into a frown, has gone into shadow; the shawl flames, the maroon flower over her breast glows like a coal. Rosinante to the Road Again Nichoune swaggered down the stage and, planting herself close to the footlights, flung the title of her song at the delighted audience in strident tones. A Nest of Spies Pinchas, from his proximity to the stage, could hear every word from the prompter's box, which rose in the centre of the footlights. Ghetto Comedies In front are the footlights, a row of earthenware bowls filled with oil, with a lighted wick floating in each one. Round the Wonderful World And with that he stalked up to the front, and possessed himself of one of the candles which had been in use as footlights. Adventures and Recollections "Why—she possesses the composure of a veteran of the footlights." When Dreams Come True Across the stage a great curtain was drawn, and footlights had been secured to throw up the antics of the different animals the twelve girls were to act. Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief On their way up to the house they passed Punch, leaning over the footlights to rejoice in his iniquity. Somehow Good Mother ran out of the theater and Father tried to climb up over the footlights to get at Josephine and got put out. Continuous Vaudeville As a national or "race" illustration, behind the footlights, might not "Jim Crow" and a black face tickle the fancy of pit and circle, as well as the "Sprig of Shillalah" and a red nose? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 In the end we rocked in our seats and howled tumultuously when the sergeant-major, a portly man of great dignity, was dragged over the footlights. A Padre in France And just back of the footlights, with the faces of her auditors but a blurred spot on her vision, the girl put her violin under her chin and gently drew the bow across the strings. Dorothy's Triumph It was as if the scene were prepared for a stage and you sat before the footlights looking into the interior. They Shall Not Pass Meanwhile she was crowding poor Coram, out in front, further and further into the footlights. Continuous Vaudeville Some family portraits by Gainsborough and Reynolds, a Holbein, and a Vandyck, with lamps shining like footlights beneath them, were darkly visible on the dull blue walls. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange The audience applauded with extra vigour until candles were brought and set in rows, like footlights, in front of the stage. A Padre in France In the center of the great stage, but a few feet back from the footlights, she paused as Herr Deichenberg had told her. Dorothy's Triumph A soiled cotton glove waved, a flowery hat nodded to the appeal from behind the acetylene footlights. The Dop Doctor Diana felt the atmosphere of the footlights and calmly waited. The Rhodesian For himself he wished to discourage any hankering on her part for public life, and, most of all, public life behind the footlights, under an artificial sky. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange Such palaces as the Hudson Theatre, New York, were not dreamed of when we were at the Star, which was, however, quite equal to any theatre in London, in front of the footlights. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 The carcel-lamp placed on a round table, shining down on her like the footlights of a theatre, made her jaw protrude. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man "This is Ali Baba," he announces, leading a fat and greasy Oriental to the footlights. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China If you have flowers handed to you over the footlights when you get to be stars, ladies, let it be at the final curtain. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession On the right from the middle of the back of the scene to the footlights, the walls of the dwelling made of beaten clay. Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux No wonder that the retired actor longs for a sniff of the footlights and for the echo of the reverberating plaudits to the accompaniment of which he formerly bowed himself off. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Mr. Bell, on the contrary, far from turning El Greco into an epicurean cult, drags him with a somewhat heavy hand before the footlights of English Idealism. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions He owed an apology to La Touche, and he was scarcely aware that the native gentlemanliness in him had said through his fever of passion over the footlights, “I beg your pardon.” Northern Lights If the lips are left their natural color the footlights bleach them white and colorless. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession I imagine that he failed as an actor because his effects, carefully studied, were neither bold nor broad enough to get across the footlights. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands In their midst I lost the slim figure that had preceded me, until she mounted the platform and swept before the footlights a stately courtesy. Friendship Village After a brief period the most friendly relations were established between the people before and beyond the footlights. A Pirate of Parts If she saved up her voice for her duet with Strachan and her one little solo at the fall of the curtain, Brown thought she might be heard beyond the footlights. To Love On the stage we have the footlights in red, white and blue, a row of each, and overhead are the border lights in the same three colors. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession The glamour of the footlights had contributed nothing to the flame-like personality of the actress. Virginia A net was stretched above the stalls, from the footlights to the opening in the roof. The Bill-Toppers Fogg arose and, wisely affecting not to notice the storm in front of the footlights, continued the scene. A Pirate of Parts Men hurled themselves over the footlights in vain pursuit of the assassin. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan There are dimmers for the footlights and the border lights. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession In some places the members of the company had to take the oil-lamps that served as footlights back in the makeshift dressing-rooms while they dressed. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man The footlights lit up with a row of flames, the storm approached. The Bill-Toppers At one end of the dining-room a miniature stage had been erected, and there was a circular row of footlights. The Erie Train Boy She asked herself that, putting Maurice eventually behind footlights in his place. Tongues of Conscience In other words, beauty of the street and the home is a vastly different thing from beauty on the stage behind the footlights. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Her youth and appealing beauty never failed to get over the footlights. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Why, Lily wanted to have it handed to her across the footlights, like a singer! The Bill-Toppers She incautiously drew too near the footlights, and in an instant her dress caught fire. The Erie Train Boy Does George Felsburg still play the overture at Poli's, reading his newspaper the while, and do comic actors still jest with him across the footlights? Chimney-Pot Papers The mouth becomes dry and the throat contracts as the speaker or singer attempts to get his voice across the footlights and out to the audience. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession She became indignant, called him to the footlights, and said: "I want you to know that I am an artist?" Charles Frohman: Manager and Man A crescendo in the orchestra and, bowing to the audience across the footlights, the Three Graces made 92 their exit, their smiles suddenly hollowed out into tired wrinkles, but cheerful nevertheless. The Bill-Toppers All went well till the third tableau, in which the young hostess took part, She incautiously approached too near the footlights, when her white dress caught fire and instantly blazed up. The Erie Train Boy A flounce of the singer's dress touched the footlights, and the flame began to creep upwards like a snake of fire. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls The footlights and the apron are in front of the fireproof curtain. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession He could get ten or twelve inflections out of a speech of about four lines; he had a wonderful method of getting the actors to accept and project these tones over the footlights. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man It was a heartrending sight, all those things, made for the glitter of the footlights, now displayed in the street. The Bill-Toppers It was so loud, so unexpected, that she was startled for a moment, and remained with one arm on the barytone's shoulder looking rather shyly across the lowered footlights and over the director's head. Fair Margaret A Portrait I stood there before the footlights in shining white, and sang my song. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls This Prosper Gael who had stood behind the footlights, this Prosper Gael at whom Joan, from some unknown cause, had sprung like a woman maddened by injury, was a person entirely strange to Pierre. The Branding Iron So gentle was his speech at rehearsals that the actors often came down to the footlights to hear his friendly yet earnest direction. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man I say, Glass-Eye, perhaps it’s they who fell into the orchestra, was it, when I got my thighs full of lamp-glass from the footlights, eh? The Bill-Toppers With the excuse that the footlights dazzled her, she was turning every moment towards the audience to look for her son. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 One can not indulge in reverie, meditate, or be absent-minded when before the footlights: the part must have due attention. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. Under the guidance of a musically inclined Ship's Steward, it had faced audiences across impromptu footlights as "The Pale Pink Pierrots," and, as such, had achieved a meteoric distinction. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions At the theatrically most effective point in the acting the voice breaks in, Miss Anglin stops, hastens to the footlights, and listens intently to a few simple, quiet words. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man She could have cried out for happiness to that human mass which, behind the flaming streak of the footlights, spread itself, bare-necked and bedizened, in the warm shadow of the front boxes. The Bill-Toppers The telephone has revolutionised the stage; with its aid you can convey anything you like across the footlights. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 He had that nervous, egotistic, self-centered nature common to stage children who seem to have been dazzled by the footlights and maddened by the applause before they are born. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Then his eyes fell on a group of photographs in the shape of postal cards; a wonderful assortment of fleshlings, of young ladies who dazzle and display abundant charms before the footlights. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World The two occupied the centre of the stage close to the footlights, and twenty thousand people were frantically cheering the spectacle. The Candidate A Political Romance He was irresistibly reminded of the stage, with its sharp contrasts between the two sides of the footlights, and in the luggage net near his head reposed that melodramatic sword, still wrapped in brown paper. A Son of the Immortals I had noticed it, but supposed it to be connected with some different arrangement they might have made concerning the footlights. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch In the rather confined space between the footlights and the back cloth there came on a knight in armour. Diversions in Sicily The piece continued, and every now and then it was as though Henri's eyes were seeking, beyond the footlights, the eyes of Mme. Renée Mauperin They were both sitting at the edge of the stage, and in front of them, nearer the footlights, was young Moore, proud and eager, his fingers moving nervously. The Candidate A Political Romance We cut it here," said Lenore, advancing to the footlights, "and he doesn't know. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy We won’t have to climb across the footlights and steal a curl from the author, because he’s already being sheared in England. Iole The footlights were in the usual place in front of the curtain, and during the performance boys got up from their seats in the front row and lighted their cigarettes at them. Diversions in Sicily Still, with such a brilliantly intelligent, marvellously sympathetic public as yours, I don't despair of bringing the hop-poles over the footlights, so to say. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 So, if the stage to-day is not what it was fifty years ago, the fault lies principally in front of the footlights and not behind them. American Men of Mind Delacour, wineglass in hand, came forward to the footlights, and their eyes met. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy At last amid a hush of intense silence, she came before the footlights, saw and conquered. The Root of Evil In front of it, about halfway to the footlights, was a low wall of fortifications. Diversions in Sicily Indeed I was glad to escape a hand-in-hand appearance, rather recalling the footlights. The King's Mirror Kellerman had in some mysterious way added a touch of the footlights to this business. The Man Who Lost Himself Never before had such acting faced me across the footlights. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 The professional entertainment began on the little stage amid a universal gabble which made it impossible for anything save pantomime to be intelligible beyond the footlights. The Root of Evil Then he would toss the cloak on a convenient sofa, place the big hat on top of it, and come down to the footlights, deliberately removing his yellow kid gloves. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators One might mount an entire West-End Society comedy, and bring as it were the scent of Hay Hill across the footlights, at no greater expense than the cost of a back-curtain and a Chorus. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 12, 1916 As the great outburst of music died away, Captain Tolliver radiantly stepped to the footlights, dividing the applause with the musicians. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic At the close of the performance Miss Cushman was called to the footlights, there to receive the tribute due to her name and fame from the not over large audience. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 The little girl waited at the footlights for—something. Flamsted quarries Down stage, almost on the footlights, is an easel, at which an artist sits. Nights in London Pleasant and fresh in the footlights the chintzes with which they are covered, Giving a summer effect, helped out by the plants in the fireplace. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 12, 1916 Candle footlights were arranged, and the stage was canopied with national flags. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War After bending over and listening to her instructions, he stepped forward nearer the footlights. The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World The child was still waiting at the footlights, evidently for the expected applause from the higher latitudes. Flamsted quarries A few scenes, evidently painted on the spot and in dire distress; a drop-curtain depicting an utterly impracticable roseate ice-gorge in the ideal Alaska, and four footlights, constituted the sum total of the properties. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska As the preacher read that he confessed to himself that the comedian, familiar as he was with footlights, was doing more good in the world than a dozen Phares Ebys. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' She tripped lightly before the footlights, smiled charmingly as she put the question of the first line, and sang the song through with dancing between the stanzas and dramatic rendering of the lines. Elsie Marley, Honey In the second row just under the footlights she had discovered a face that was strangely familiar. The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World She seemed to be a part of one of those very scenes for which her soul yearned—melodramatic scenes such as she had witnessed across footlights, with her husky-voiced favorite in the principal role. Apron-Strings Miss Vaine failed completely to maintain the rôle of the indignant beauty and turned her back to the footlights to hide her face, though her laughter was betrayed by the shaking of her handsome shoulders. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 The theatre had for roof the blue vault of heaven; the sun served for footlights and for the lights above the heads of those who acted. A Book of Myths Then when certain faint murmurings of conscience began to be audible, came the actual prospect of the Merry Nickel to stifle them, and then there was the stage itself and the actual footlights. Elsie Marley, Honey It would be uncandid to pretend that Mr. Algernon Blackwood gets everything he has to say in The Starlight Express safely across the footlights—those fateful barriers that trap so many excellent intentions. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 "Oh, no I intend to go before the footlights." The New Pun Book The Kirkman picture shows a small enclosed room, with a narrow stage illuminated by chandeliers and footlights; the Red Bull, on the contrary, was a large, open-air building, with its stage illuminated by the sun. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration But, indeed, if Pierrot and Columbine were all the race, and the footlights might only change places with the sun, then were M. de Banville by way of being a Shakespeare. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation In the unreal life behind the footlights lovers talked with just such a fluency, just such a tender fiery emphasis. Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray I could tell that by the buzz that came over the footlights. Shorty McCabe His face was in the sideway glare of the footlights which illumined the orchestra. An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) Chandeliers over the stage, and, possibly, footlights, completed the necessary arrangements. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Luckily I am very short-sighted, and the space beyond the yellow glare of the footlights was no more than a black and empty gulf to me. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography The curtain is your background, while the footlights may stand for the surface of your wood. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship Some seconds, or minutes, or hours, after this, there struck into his eyes the white glare of the footlights. The Genius Legree looked dismayed, and then he advanced to the footlights and addressed the audience. Frank Merriwell's Races He was once an actor in the Châtelet; but he contracted a nervous affection from the heat and glare of the footlights, which unfitted him for the stage. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) He had the most suasive, genial, and gentlemanly comedy manner conceivable, and was never for a minute away from the footlights. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography Hillar, the producer, has effectually disenchanted the footlights by putting steps down to the audience in the position of the prompter's box. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Suiting the action to the word, he sprang over the footlights, followed by the seamen in the pit. Paddy Finn But perhaps its very drabness and remoteness from the world of the footlights proved a welcome relief. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert The man followed the lady, who, stepping to the footlights, gazed around on that most desolate of all desolate, dreary, dingy places, the inside of a theatre by daylight. Recollections of Old Liverpool Actors tell us that there is an indescribable inspiration which comes from the orchestra, the footlights, the audience, which it is impossible to feel at a cold mechanical rehearsal. Pushing to the Front Sometimes it pleased the Bibliotaph to maintain that his friend of the footlights would be in the future state a mere homeless wanderer, having neither positive satisfaction nor positive discomfort. The Bibliotaph and Other People Beyond was the pit with the orchestra, the footlights, the House. The Black Cross The footlights proved a stronger lure than maternity; and, almost immediately after her marriage, she accepted an engagement at one of the theatres, where she appeared as Lady Teazle. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert How many 'blameless' lives are like the scenes in a theatre, effective and picturesque, when seen with the artificial glory of the footlights? Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Laura Murdock represents the type of woman of easy virtue who is sometimes seen behind the footlights and helps to give the theatre a bad name. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life The hour before the footlights has done him no harm. The Bibliotaph and Other People Can Br�nnhilde sit aloft in the flies?" she said, "She is there in front of the footlights and everyone sees her. The Black Cross This was Eve Lavalliére, who, after a distinctly hectic career, cut herself adrift from the footlights of Paris and entered the mission-field of North Africa. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert "It's awful, I know," she agreed, "but in the strong lights of the stage and the footlights too, you have to pile it on like that." Patty Blossom The width of the stage between the so-called fly-rails is 50 feet; while the depth from the footlights to the wall at the back, is 80 feet. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 Four or five eager volunteers scrambled over the footlights. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life The apathy of her unwieldy body was minimized in the false glare of the footlights. The Nabob, Volume 1 Hence, from the pulpit to the footlights was no great step. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert He's got a complete little theatre fitted up over his garage; stage, scenery, footlights, folding chairs and everything. Torchy As A Pa Anyone on the floor could have heard it; for she was spoutin' the Juliet lines like a carriage caller, and whenever she made a rush to the footlights the floor beams creaked. Torchy The footlights flashed on, and the musicians struck up a lilting, popular air, as Sid cleared his throat. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life The audience rushed for the doors while the actors leaped over the footlights in their mad scramble to escape. Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls There was a sudden hush, as, at the finish of the number, she stepped up to the footlights and awaited the verdict. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert If he too often indulged in mere theatrical devices, and mistook the glare of the footlights for the sacred glow of the171 imagination, he professed, at least, to introduce us to an ideal world. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) All the footlights of her little secret stage were up. The Coast of Chance For an hour or more he rubbed shoulders with the press that was on its way to find relief from their own lives in the mimic lives of others behind the footlights. The Seventh Noon Two bouquets were handed over the footlights at this point, one a beautiful bunch of pink roses and the other of lilies of the valley. Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls This was a pair of shapely legs, which, as a ballet-dancer, could yet twinkle in front of the footlights. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert There must also be sidelights, or the footlights will cast shadows. The Peace Egg and Other tales The sash stuck up several inches above the footlights. Watch Yourself Go By But the recurrence of an old throat ailment made him suddenly so hoarse that he could not speak loud enough to be heard across the footlights. The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys He had just been "cast" for an important part in a new play, but had to give it up, as he could not speak distinctly enough to be heard across the footlights. The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film Wagner got acquainted with her across the footlights. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians A shade may be quickly thrown up between the footlights and the stage, on the same principle, if darkness is required. The Peace Egg and Other tales In his hand this person held a watch at which he glanced hastily, and then made two steps to come before the footlights. White Ashes The waves of sound rise from the shadowy gulf sunken between the audience and the footlights. Parsifal Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera And I contend that the degenerate scion of a great house who goes to the wrong side of the footlights for his wife is a criminal, and deserves all that may befall him. Dross He mounted a mullein leaf and sang, and sang, and sang, until Professor Turkey Gobbler slipped up behind him with open mouth, and Signor Grasshopper vanished from the footlights forevermore. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales For a full moon, cut a round hole in your scene, cover it with some translucent material, and hold a lamp behind it; the blue-glass shade must be up before the footlights. The Peace Egg and Other tales Miss Tressilian inquired if he had found Mr. Sherringham with her; to which he replied that, save across the footlights, she had not been in touch with him. The Tragic Muse Your grandfather's quite right when he says you were born to the footlights. Quin The puppets, instead of continuing the recital, redoubled their noise and outcries, and putting Pinocchio on their shoulders they carried him in triumph before the footlights. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 But to do the siren with your brother—no, she wouldn't be equal to that, even to please me: couldn't get it across the footlights. Everyman's Land |
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