This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...were forbidden. It was thought more genteel to approve and admire in silence, thus to draw the line between professional actors and actresses, and gentlemen and lady performers. Upon trial, however, it had been found that the difference was sufficiently obvious, without marking it by any invidious distinction. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...were forbidden. It was thought more genteel to approve and admire in silence, thus to draw the line between professional actors and actresses, and gentlemen and lady performers. Upon trial, however, it had been found that the difference was sufficiently obvious, without marking it by any invidious distinction. Young and old amateurs have acknowledged that the silence, however genteel, was so dreadfully awful' that they preferred even the noise of vulgar exclamation. The cup of flattery was found so sweet that objections were no longer made to swallowing it in public. Then follows a somewhat pedantic disquisition upon the fact that a certain Count Altenberg who is, with the prudence of many of Miss Edgeworth's heroes, all but in love with Caroline Percy, while a match with him is the one object of Georgiana Falconer's ambition, has come to the theatricals less with a view of civility and diversion than to study at leisure his nearly beloved's disposition, especially her behaviour while a rival is queening it on the stage and she herself is but one of the audience. Then we come back to the play. Miss Falconer as Zara is easily first in merit. With the others 1 Here seems a kind of harbinger to modern slang. The more usual slang words of Miss Edgeworth's time which corresponded to awful and awfully were famous andfameusfy. The faults common to unpractised actors occurred. One of Osman's arms never moved, and the other sawed the air perpetually, as if in pure despite of Hamlet's prohibition. Then, in crossing over, Osman was continually entangled in Zara's robe, or, when standing still, she was obliged to twitch her train thrice before she could get it from beneath his leaden feet. When confident that he could repeat a speech fluently, he was apt to...
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