But all this display of silk and camlet was nothing to the ballets and pantomimes which served as interludes between the acts of the Plautine dramas.
The same was no doubt the case at the great court festivals, when Mysteries were acted as well as pantomimes and secular dramas.
Brilliant pantomimes of the same kind were given at Bologna, at the marriage of Annibale Bentivoglio with Lucrezia of Este.
The pantomimes of the last thirty years have failed to effect a total eclipse of the brilliancy of "Harlequin and Mother Goose, or the Golden Egg;" which found its way into the list of provincial stock-pieces.
The winter pantomimes are introduced on the evening next after Christmas night; and some account of this entertainment seems, as a feature of the season, due to our Christmas readers.
During the intervals between our concerts and pantomimes and dramatic performances the crowded camp was driven half crazy by fellows “practising” for the next entertainment on landings and in bedrooms, and all over the place.
From some of his pantomimes Loomis has made excerpts, and remade them with new elaboration for two pianos, under the name of "Exotics.
The pantomimes range from grave to gay, most of the librettos in this difficult form being from the clever hand of Edwin Starr Belknap.
His pantomimes contain many irresistible dances, one of them including a Chinese dance alternating 4-4 with 3-4 time.
This Loomis seems to have to an unusual degree, as is evidenced by the dances in his pantomimes and his series of six pieces "In Ballet Costume," all of them rich with the finest art along with a Strauss-like spontaneity.
Leigh Hunt complained in 1831 that pantomimes were not what they had been, and that the opening, "which used to form merely a brief excuse for putting the harlequinade in motion," had come to be a considerable part of the performance.
The incident always excites much amusement; for in pantomimes the world is turned upside-down, and moral principles have no existence; cruelty is only comical, and outrageous crime the best of jokes.
Yet what were called "speaking pantomimes," that is, pantomimes supplied to an unusual extent with spoken matter, were occasionally produced in times not long past.
He urged that the receipts of the house were sufficient evidence that without the occasional performance of pantomimes he could not afford to produce plays of a higher class.
Still, when in theatres of any pretension, entertainments in the nature of spectacles or pantomimes are in course of preparation, there is much stir in the wardrobe department.
The experiment was not wholly successful in the first instance; but by degrees the burlesque leaven affected the pantomimic constitution, and pantomimes came to be what we find them at present.
The exception made in favour of new pantomimes was much remarked upon at the time.
In my humble opinion, children cannot go to a better place for instruction in these matters, or to a place more calculated to teach them the art of pilfering to perfection, than to the theatre, when pantomimes are performed.
Until 1860 the Boulevard du Temple was noted for a number of little theatres, where marionettes might be seen dancing on the tight-rope, or where pantomimes in the Italian style were performed.
He afterwards, however, obtained permission to represent pantomimes and prologues, or vaudevilles, on condition that in each of these little pieces not more than two actors were employed.
Pantomimes henceforth fell into disrepute; and the history of the Chinese drama from this date is divided, with an accuracy we cannot profess to control, into four distinct periods.
When pantomimes are written for children once more," he said, "I will go.
The good old style of Pantomime, too, was a great delight to him, and he would often speak affectionately of the pantomimes at Brighton during the regime of Mr. and Mrs. Nye Chart.
Some of the dresses had been used inPantomimes at Drury Lane: some were rags, to dress up beggar-children in: some had been very magnificent once, but were getting quite old and shabby.
But as a matter of factpantomimes are not popular institutions with music-hall artistes.
All the principal artistes now performing at the two pantomimes will be there, and I would like you all to come and see them and me.
Well, I never knew before, Dad, that Pantomimeswere a special weakness of yours.
The speaking pantomimes and extemporal comedies which have delighted the Italians for many centuries, are from this ancient source.
The humour of these old Italian pantomimes was often as traditionally preserved as proverbs.
The enlightened Lesbonax of Mytilene called pantomimes 'manual philosophers,' and used to frequent the theatre, in the conviction that he came out of it a better man than he went in.
Pantomimes cannot all be artists; there are plenty of ignorant performers, who bungle their work terribly.
Our modern pantomimes have the same gift, and Proteus himself sometimes appears as the subject of their rapid transformations.
Then, pantomimes went through, not merely a part of one, but several seasons.
The two respectable theaters in Thrigsby were maintained by annual pantomimes and kept open from week to week by the visits of companies presenting replicas of alleged successful London plays.
She had seen pantomimes in Thrigsby, and she said she did not mind.
In short, he held pantomimes to be rank nonsense, which might be rendered useful, after the fashion of his explanation.
When the fashion of patronising the folly of pantomimes came in, Cibber reluctantly produced one at Drury Lane, but only "as crutches to the plays.
The clownery and pantaloonery of these pantomimes have clean passed out of my head.
He delivered his story, referring to one of the many incidents in his perilous life, orally, but with pantomimes so graphic and vivid that it may be presented truly as a specimen of gesture language.
While the general effect of these pantomimes is often mentioned, there remain but few detailed descriptions of them.
He seized upon the ingenious plots of certain of the pantomimes brought to America from France half a century ago by the Ravels.
With the conversion of the empire to Christianity, pantomimes of this type, appealing only to lewd fellows of the baser sort, was very properly prohibited.
Of the number of Pantomimes brought out by Rich I shall not dilate on, and those that I have referred to will, doubtless, show what all these "plays without words" were like.
Another competitor that took up the running to the abolition of Clown and his companions, was the music-hall, which began introducing Pantomimes and ballets.
The speaking Pantomimes and Extemporal Comedies which have delighted the Italians for many centuries, are from this ancient source.
With the Greeks, Pantomimes became very popular, and they were distinguished by various names.
Before dealing with Rich and his Pantomimes, which I shall treat of in the next chapter, it is appropriate here to note how Pantomimesgenerally came to be introduced on the English stage.
The Chinese Drama also arose from the Hindoo developing itself as time rolled on from Pantomimes and ballets.
As an escape from realities into that world of make-believe that children crave, pantomimes are practiced evenings after dinner; self-expression is encouraged on these occasions, criticism no more than hinted.
Many of thepantomimes are based on work from which the rural population is less remote than are those who dwell in cities.
As a stock character in other pantomimes and farces, Doctor Pantalone’s characteristics, both mental and physical, are so clearly defined that he has the reality of an acquaintance.
For this reason, perhaps, both opera ballets and academies of Europe outside of Russia have long lost the custom of staging pantomimes of greater consequence than operatic divertissement.
The Vingakersdans pantomimes the competition of two women for the same man.
In both houses, ballet pantomimesare presented twice a week, approximately.
Whereas the Marianski Theatre and the Moscow Opera dedicate two nights a week to ballet pantomimes exclusively, and have done so for many years.
But its taste in pantomimes of light motive is already characterised without the addition of further examples.
He played prominent parts in ballet pantomimes to the number of twenty-six.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pantomimes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
