Let a tyrannical royal ordinance or sumptuary law close the playhouses and cut down the bills of fare from a volume to a page, and a sensible diminution will ensue in the influx of foreigners into France.
It may be admitted that in many instances an effort is made to carry out these entirely unoriginal views, but even in some of our most carefully conducted playhouses there are strange lapses.
No great change would be needed in the conduct of the playhouses in London to enable them to cut into the music-halls.
The London théâtre de luxe is still a dream of the future, though undoubtedly some playhouses are vastly more comfortable than others.
The phenomenon referred to very rarely has much effect in the London playhouses at the first night: on these occasions there are too many discordant elements.
Putting aside musical comedy and comic opera, one asks why it is that a great deal of money has been lost at the playhouses and a very large proportion of pieces have been failures.
According to Mr Lauder a gulf exists between the theatres and the music-halls, and it is due to the fact that the playhouses traffic in immorality and the halls are pure.
The authorities are lax in this matter, as in the matter of exits; the crush in getting out of most of the playhouses is abominable.
A Dictionary of the Drama: Being a comprehensive Guide to the Plays, Playwrights, Players, and Playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the Earliest to the Present Times.
Being a comprehensive Guide to the Plays, Playwrights, Players, and Playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the Earliest to the Present Times.
The playhouses themselves were usually wooden structures with crude benches for the average customers and a few "less uncomfortable" boxes for the aristocrats.
Consequently, the Virginia playhouses eventually closed and most of the actors and actresses traveled to foreign shores.
The two playhouses were very close to each other, but for this very reason it seems natural to suppose that they were rather meant to support than to rival each other.
And it was with equally sound calculation that he gave the theatre its particular form, which remained essentially the same in all the playhouses of the Shakespearean period.
It cannot be denied, however, that under the prevailing circumstances it was quite right that the playhouses should be temporarily forbidden.
Deprived of their sport, the smaller girls returned to their playhouses and the older ones strolled leisurely back toward the seminary.
The primary grades went racing through the warm morning sunshine, down to their playhouses by the spring.
Philip issued ferocious but ineffective pragmatics against extravagance in dress and household appointments;[26] both the public playhouses were filled, and the comedies applauded by eager crowds as usual.
The Phoenix was soon rebuilt: and the performances continued till 1648, when they were again stopped by the Puritans who then swayed England, and who put an end to playhouses for some time.
Since that period Covent Garden and Drury Lane playhouses have had this part of the town to themselves.
After the wine had gone round three times, the players left the Falcon, to walk from the region of playhouses and bear-gardens to the city, preferring to use their legs rather than go by water from the Falcon stairs.
In London the playhouses were allowed to be open in Lent on all days but sermon days,--Wednesday and Friday.
They include all the playhouses of the better class, about thirty-five in number, beginning with Wallack's and ending with the New Theater.
I cannot place in the same catalogue Madame Bernhardt's appeal to the French Ambassador at Washington to protest against her exclusion from playhouses controlled by the so-called Theatrical Syndicate.
The atmosphere of seriousness by which Mr. Archer has surrounded himself when dealing with playhouses is, indeed, impenetrable, fuliginous.
Its proprietors own two playhouses in the immediate vicinity—the Adelphi and the Vaudeville—and supply half the Strand with electric current from their own dynamos.
Now we have playhouses of our own, and when the servants of the Lord Chamberlain shall occupy the Globe at Bankside, you shall see how plays may be presented.
How often, prythee, have you been in these playhouses which you are so ready to decry?
One of the most valuable materials for making these playhouses is ordinary modeling clay.
Similar playhouses may be built by children in any spot where trees grow within a short distance of each other.
Besides, sir, our playhouses are grown so plenty, and our actors so scarce, that really plays are become very bad commodities.
Playhouses cannot flourish, while they dare To nonsense give an entertainment's name.
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