The players, two or more, were provided with implements resemblingcues about 4 ft.
The music cues are being rehearsed, the director shouting against the din on the stage.
Participants acted according to them and to the cues of previous experience as this was directly passed from one person to another.
Actors in Shakespeare's time were prompted to recall their lines through visual cues embodied in the architecture of the theater.
Here and there games of more than ordinary interest were going on; the principals were, as a rule, fox-like young men who wore no coats and staked their handling of their cues against the world for a living.
Bat saw a dingy-looking place with the name "Gaffney" painted in red letters upon the window and two billiard cues in yellow crossed beneath it.
Of course my folks kicked like steers about my taking a common job like that, but I thought it was fun; and watching the screen for music cues put it into my head I could show 'em something if I ever got a chance in pictures.
Fellows were pushing into the room with cues in their hands and their coats off.
From another part of the house came the pounding of billiard-cues and a few emphatic remarks, varied at intervals with a yell or a loud laugh.
As we tried to tell him of the way of peace, and prayed, our hands resting on the side of the billiard table, the gamesters ceased, doffed their hats, and let their cues rest on the floor.
As the parson stepped to the head of one of the tables every eye was turned upon him, the hum of conversation ceased, the cues dropped to the ground and every hat was removed.
If we follow the play in a genuine attitude of theatrical interest, we must accept those cues for our attention which the playwright and the producers have prepared for us.
A steel tube has been inserted down its interior--" "Do I understand that billiard cues have also taken to hunger-striking?
This set of cues has been designed for the billiard player who spends his summer on the golf links and comes back in the autumn to billiards with the golf-habit highly developed.
And he showed me a long green-lined mahogany box containing foreign-looking cues (in addition to a secret-jointed one) packed as carefully as a set of drawing instruments.
Quard forgot his lines and extemporized and "gagged" desperately to cover the consequent breaks in the dialogue; leaving poor Joan hopelessly at sea, floundering for cues that were never uttered.
His gratitude to Joan for knowing her part was almost affecting; he himself was by no means familiar with his own and her prompt response to cues he read from manuscript facilitated his task considerably.
I studied hard, and next morning recited the lines, cues and all, to Buntline.
I said, 'Cues be d--d; I never heard of anything but a billiard cue.
The cushions were hard and unelastic, and the cues were so crooked that in making a shot you had to allow for the curve or you would infallibly put the "English" on the wrong side of the hall.
The table was of the usual European style --cushions dead and twice as high as the balls; the cues in bad repair.
Huddy had handed Lavinia her part written out, but it did not tell her much, as everything the other characters in the play had to say was omitted and only the cues for Serina left.
Don't forget to listen for the cues and come in at the proper place.
When she rose she knew the lines and the cues by heart.
It is, however, an inarticulate, blundering, incoherent thing and the cues which it furnishes to the nature of the environment are as often as not dangerous and misleading.
Dolan went on cutting curly-cues from the leather, and McHurdie kept on sewing at his bench.
By obstructing Captain’s view of his master I was able to eliminate the possibility of directing gaze-cues from master to horse.
It is still a source of surprise to me that this horse, while blindfolded and with no directive cues from his master (Mr. Sigsbee stood beside me and neither moved nor spoke), responded appropriately to these commands.
Suggestions of trickery, of Captain’s being controlled by visual or aural cues that are unobserved and generally unobservable by the public, arise in the mind.
A spasmodic inspiration, a faint sigh or a sudden quickening of respiration might easily serve as cues for Captain.
His leader had to take first three turns, and he doesn't know us properly and kept missing the cues for changes.
The Colonel, after examining the cues with marked disapproval, eventually selects one of short length and pronounced weight.
The players examine the tips of their cues in sudden silence.
Take up your cues sharply, and mind you, speak up or nobody will hear you: this is a big house.
In his performance of the easy-going, thick-headed Peter Spuyk his impromptu additions to the lines made it hard on the company, who found their cuesall at sixes and sevens, but it delighted the audience beyond measure.
The butts of the billiard cues came down on the floor with a bump, and for a moment the players were speechless.
Cues run in weight from fifteen to twenty-two ounces.
This means the manufacture of cues according to weight, as well as taper, material, finish and quality of the tip.
The Abbe, quoting from King Cathire’s will, says, “To Drimoth I bequeath fifty billiard balls of brass with the cues of the same material.
But when I come to take cues and try to remember the business of the piece, I forget my lines.
Everybody knew her first speeches, and as Mr. Mann accentuated the cues and advised about the business the girls did very well during the first act.
Features that are not significant are distracting; they proffer their claims to be regarded as clues and cues to interpretation, while traits that are significant do not appear on the surface at all.
We select the things that we hope or trust are cues to meaning.
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