At least ten years of continuous study are required to make a finished ballet dancer in the histrionic sense.
The General Director, the Stage Manager, and often the Musical Director make innumerable suggestions to the singers regarding the proper histrionic presentation of their roles.
She is considered by many the finest singing actress living--her histrionic gifts being in every way equal to her vocal gifts.
During my lessons with Gounod he revealed not only his very pronounced histrionic ability, but also his charming talent as a singer.
The girl who wants to sing in opera must have one thought and one thought only--"what will contribute to my musical, histrionic and artistic success?
The new school of opera demands higher histrionic ability from the singer.
If Winston had previously imagined his earlier steps toward histrionic honors were destined to be easy ones, he was very soon undeceived under the guidance of the enthusiastic manager.
Macready Lane, whose well-known cognomen must even now awaken happy histrionic memories throughout the western circuit.
There was a good deal of the histrionic mixed up with it, but it was very beautiful.
St. Petersburg has ever been a formidable competitor of Paris for securing the best histrionic and lyrical talent.
Perhaps--" But here her histrionic ability came to her aid, and she sobbed violently.
Her mother was a member of the company, but her father did not altogether approve of Maude's histrionic attempts.
Great men, says Mr. Mansfield, owe their preeminence largely to their histrionic ability.
Struck by Miss Clark's capabilities, and learning of her histrionic ambitions, he offered her an engagement for the summer, which she was only too glad to accept.
A frown overshadowed his massive brow, but he merely added composedly: "I did not suspect until to-night that you were endowed with your mother's histrionic talent.
Mrs. Baines with a histrionic air of bewilderment.
Miss Chetwynd, simpering momentarily, came forward with that self- conscious, slightly histrionic air, which is one of the penalties of pedagogy.
The student will soon discover that the monologue is not only a new literary or poetic form, but that it demands a new histrionic method of representation.
The histrionic presentation of a play is not, strictly speaking, a vocal interpretation, nor an interpretation by action.
It is distinct from the play, and from every other literary form or phase of histrionic expression.
Topham proved a welcome addition to Dickens's company of distinguished amateur actors, and concerning his histrionic ability the artist's son, Mr. Frank W.
Should he array himself in his tragic robe and present himself as a suppliant before the Parthians, or before Galba, moving them to tears by his histrionic skill?
He had no motive but a noble patriotism which felt the shame of a Roman at being governed by a histrionic debauchee.
We cannot wonder that Nero did not visit Sparta, because every tradition of Sparta would have cried shame on his histrionic effeminacy.
The details of the stage, no doubt, were subject to alteration as experience suggested, for its materials were of wood, and histrionic and dramatic art were both undergoing rapid development.
The chief actor of the new organization was Nathaniel Field, whose histrionic ability placed him beside Edward Alleyn and Richard Burbage.
At last the Guards, too, were to have their turn, but not to go in against the Prussian Guard, which those with a sense of histrionic fitness desired.
There was a sort of warlike intensity about them which may come from the sunlight of an island continent reflecting the histrionic adaptability of appearances to the task in hand.
He very often had a hand in the staging of the plays, and is said to have shown a remarkable histrionic talent in the performances at Schadow's.
Hence the monotonous and petrified histrionic ecstasy of these pictures, the noble indignation put on for show, and that distressing gesticulation.
In both may be found elegance of line, Byronic emphasis, histrionic gestures, and the same stage properties borrowed from the theatre; never the genuine movement of feeling, only empty and distorted grimaces.
Very pretty it is to see her motherly pride in their successes, whether histrionic or artistic.
She had personal charm as well as histrionic skill.
It is probable that some delay in that maturity of style indispensable to perfection in histrionic art has resulted from this break in her career.
Marion Terry made her first bold, histrionicplunge in 1873.
To many Hamlet is a mysterious and complex character, beyond the power of histrionic art adequately to interpret.
On that evening the old actor had good reason to be proud, for he could boast of being the father of one of the most gifted and cultured of histrionic families.
The exercise of this rarely displayed histrionicgift was invaluable in the beautiful love-scenes of Fechter.
Even the greatest of histrionic geniuses have to wait for their chances, and Kate Terry's first real opportunity did not come until 1862.
One of these was hardly more than a girl, most intelligent and rather pretty, who was sent to me highly recommended and said to possess marked histrionic abilities.
It must be said that Paul held out the stage as a career more on account of the social status that it would give to Jane than through a belief in her histrionic possibilities.
They were laughing when the curtain rose, and the histrionic Verrian had his innings for a long, long first act.
She did not say why it seemed so, and he suggested, "The privilege of comparing the histrionic and the literary Verrian?
Few of his scenes are vital; most are clever histrionic inlays, subsidiary to the main action, or complementary and explanatory, as in Philaster and A King and No King.
And, with the exception of two spectacularly violent scenes in The Maides Tragedy, his contribution, so far as writing goes, is supplementary dialogue and histrionic by-play.
Another side of histrionic illusion, the reading of the imitated feelings into the actors' minds, will be dealt with in a later chapter.
And the same thing is recognizable in the fact that the frequenter of the theatre has his susceptibility to histrionic delusion increased by acquiring a habit of looking out for the meaning of the performance.
Histrionic illusion is as complete as any artistic variety can venture to be.
As a "star," she is of course entitled to treat herself to any luxury that may seem to tempt her histrionic appetite, and the Gallic siren evidently appeals to her.
The Spaniards, notwithstanding their precocity, compared with most of the nations of Europe, in dramatic art, were unaccountably tardy in all its histrionic accompaniments.
Did it become Jonson to gibe at the histrionic tribe, who is himself accused of "treading the stage, as if he were treading mortar.
Jonson had cruelly touched on Decker being out at elbows, and made himself too merry with the histrionic tribe: he, who was himself a poet, and had been a Thespian!
The actors and actresses in these fascinating histrionicpresentations are not called comedians and tragedians, comediennes and tragediennes--but "demonstrators.
And in these times the title pages of municipal documents were Piranesiesque: massive architectural scroll work framing stone tablets, hung with garlands of fruit and grain, and decorated with carved lions, human heads, and histrionic masks.
She was richly endowed with the artistic genius of the family, and was possessed of a contralto of marvellous purity and richness, being at the same time gifted with great histrionic powers.
Her versatility was shown not only in her extraordinary vocal and histrionic achievements and skill in vocal improvisation, but in her powers as a linguist, while as an artist her sketches were good, and sometimes amusing.
He has not the flow of ideas that struck me so forcibly when I heard the late Henry Ward Beecher in London; he has not the histrionicpowers of Dr.
The play is a repulsive one, but the double impersonation gives the great actor a magnificent opportunity for the display of his histrionic powers.
