The fortunate player hears the intoxicating music of applause a dozen times every evening and two dozen times on matinee days.
Balky locomotives will refuse to run over prostrate heroines, and I once witnessed a premier matinee of "The Gunner's Mate" at which the jib boom displayed a most distressing penchant for knocking off the helmet of the ship's Captain.
Similarly, no intelligent person could have questioned for a moment the purpose of the matinee which De Wolf Hopper gave "for women only" soon afterward at the Casino Theater.
It might be estimated safely that one opportunity at Sydney Carton, one at Armand Duval, and one at Romeo would establish the least prepossessing of leading men in the marshmallowy affections of the stock company matinee girl.
To its editorial staff and its readers a declaration of war between England and France wouldn't be worth half the space given to a street fight between two matinee idols.
Matinee idols achieve popularity, not according to their own deserts, but according to the heroism of the folk they impersonate in the course of a season.
The matinee idol who last season nightly shouldered the blame for a great crime in order to shield the brother of the girl he loved, pushes past scores of girls somebody loves in order to be first before the desk of the manager.
Don't you think that a matinee party with tea afterward at the hotel would be lovely, Annabel?
Maybe a matinee party with a dinner at the Copley Plaza afterward.
There gathered, before the matinee and afterwards, not only all the pretty women who love a showy parade, but the men who love to gaze upon and admire them.
Dressing, after the matinee on Wednesday, a knock came at her dressing- room door.
Between the acts she studied the galaxy of matinee attendants in front rows and boxes, and conceived a new idea of the possibilities of New York.
Not long after this matinee experience--perhaps a month--Mrs. Vance invited Carrie to an evening at the theatre with them.
Not long after this Mrs. Hurstwood came with a similar proposition, only it was to a matinee this time.
So true and well understood was this fact, that several years later a popular song, detailing this and other facts concerning the afternoon parade on matinee days, and entitled "What Right Has He on Broadway?
I have observed, in fact, that however big a genius a man may be, he can't monopolise the attention of an audience at a frivolous literary matinee for more than twenty minutes with impunity.
II The programme of the fete was divided into two parts: the literary matinee from midday till four o'clock, and afterwards a ball from ten o'clock onwards through the night.
One has only to remember that as the fete was divided into two parts every lady needed two costumes for the occasion--a morning one for the matinee and a ball dress for the evening.
To her surprise and, later on, her extreme discomfiture (to anticipate things) he vanished for the whole morning and did not make his appearance at the literary matinee at all, so that no one met him till evening.
Three days before he had handed him his manuscript Merci (which he had meant to read at the literary matinee at Yulia Mihailovna's fete).
We can never talk of the theatre without harking back to the play itself," says "The Matinee Girl" in The Evening News.
Meer would have preferred enjoying her society in a less popular place, but there was a matinee that day and the Pall Mall was so close to the great restaurant.
Not knowing what to make of it he was reduced to detaining Maggy on pretext of business one matinee afternoon and sounding her about her friend.
He began to form a not unpleasing mental picture of his appearance, something somewhere between the portraits of George Washington and a vivid memory of Miss Julia Marlowe at a matinee of "Twelfth Night.
Kathleen had an assignment for her paper for the afternoon, so Miss Southard took Evelyn to a matinee at one of the theaters.
Mr. Southard and Anne had a matinee in the afternoon.
As the season ripened, she and Emily went to four or five luncheons every week, feminine affairs, with cards or matinee to follow.
Police forces were called out as the matinee crowd, refusing to leave the theatre, the evening crowd blockaded traffic, being unable to gain admittance.
This was on a Saturday, a matinee day, and Wallingford went out to the track alone, contenting himself with extremely small bets, merely to keep his interest alive.
Unfortunately it is now too late for the matinee but may I not renew my invitation and ask you and your son to dine with me this evening and conclude our eventful day by going to the theater afterward?
He has invited the three of us to go to the matinee with him.
During the matinee Julia would sit on her mother's lap, a small awed figure in a brief red silk dress and deep lace collar.
These introduced her to others; sometimes half a dozen of them would go to a matinee together, a noisy, chattering group.
Dorothy will celebrate her fifteenth birthday on Saturday with a luncheon and matinee party.
I'll have to work frightfully hard, for there will be a matinee every day as well as a regular performance every night, and I'll have a new part to study each week.
Thanksgiving dinner was to be served at exactly half past twelve o'clock, instead of at night, for Mr. Southard had a matinee as well as an evening performance to give and never left the theatre for dinner during this short intermission.
He never changed to street clothing on matinee days.
Yet she still lay luxuriously in half Aunt Maud's bed, with a whole holiday before her, and a matinee into the bargain.
A matinee at Leeds, where an excellent company was then performing, was a treat she seldom obtained.
Jane Raleigh and I went to a matinee late in September before returning to our institutions of learning.
It is almost time now for the Matinee and no Adrian.
A week after the matinee Martine received a letter from Elinor Naylor.
He is SO funny about the latter that I weep with laughter and he cannot see why-- Joe Jefferson and I went to a matinee on Wednesday and saw Robson in "She stoops to Conquer.
Its purport was an overheard conversation between two young ladies at a matinee and the editors thought so well of it that for the privilege of printing the article they gave Richard a year's subscription to Judge.
Apropos, you were at the matinee dance at the Palais Elysee, were you not?
Then, too, although somehow or other I missed entering into the dancing pavilion, I understood the matinee dance there was customarily given chiefly for the entertainment of the orphan daughters of army and naval officers.
We have smiled at our daughters drifting in here for their tea on matinee afternoons, but dinners and American cocktails--well there are some sorts of reciprocity that we decidedly do not want.
On such afternoons, matinee or concert, a cup of tea or a walk along the shop windows of F street are all forgotten.
And these are the girls who revel in their Saturday afternoons uptown--all in the smartness of best bib and tucker--at the matinee or fussing with tea at Sherry's or the Plaza.
We have a box for Miss St. Germaine's benefit matinee to-morrow, and Lady Alice Mordaunt wants to come with Fanny and Bea.
You will be sure to be amused; a matinee of this kind is great fun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "matinee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: affair; gathering; levee; reception; reunion; salon; social; soiree; wake
