Crawford was considerably the best
actor of all: he had more confidence than Edmund, more judgment than Tom, more talent and taste than Mr.
A shade crossed the brow of both visitors; for the other room was the private room of the great
actor with whom Miss Aurora was performing, and she was of the kind that does not inflame admiration without inflaming jealousy.
Others had made the same attempt, and there was a household of Blenkers--an intense and voluble mother, and three blowsy daughters who imitated her--where one met Edwin Booth and Patti and William Winter, and the new Shakespearian
actor George Rignold, and some of the magazine editors and musical and literary critics.
The amiable applause which had greeted the beginning of his prologue was still echoing in his bosom, and he was completely absorbed in that species of ecstatic contemplation with which an author beholds his ideas fall, one by one, from the mouth of the
actor into the vast silence of the audience.
77] The portraits of
actors and other theatrical celebrities range from Elizabeth, from the melodramatic costumes and faces of the contemporaries of Shakespeare, to the conventional costumes, the rotund expression, of the age of the Georges, masking a power of imaginative impersonation probably unknown in Shakespeare's day.
And as, happily, the
actors have tried to perform it in the simple fashion in which it must have been done long ago, we can get from it a very good idea of the plays which pleased our forefathers.
However, Miss Lane (who had herself been too much occupied in contemplating the grown-up
actors, to pay the necessary attention to these proceedings) rescued the unhappy infant at this juncture, who, being recruited with a glass of wine, was shortly afterwards taken away by her friends, after sustaining no more serious damage than a flattening of the pink gauze bonnet, and a rather extensive creasing of the white frock and trousers.
Gradually, too, the priests lost their hold even on the plays themselves; skilful
actors from among the laymen began to take many of the parts; and at last in some towns the trade-guilds, or unions of the various handicrafts, which had secured control of the town governments, assumed entire charge.
But they have a taste for all representers and
actors of great things.
He gives me a sort of sense of looking like an
actor.
But sometimes it is seen, that the moderator is more troublesome, than the
actor.
Probably the saying of Theodoras, the tragic
actor, was not a bad one: That he would permit no one, not even the meanest
actor, to go upon the stage before him, that he might first engage the ear of the audience.
