She frowns at the prompter and a bell is heard to ring.
He puts his rifle down carefully on a table, with the muzzle pointing at the prompter rather than at the audience, and staggers back.
To singers, the convenient position of the prompter is a matter of real importance.
Meanwhile their hasty movement towards a prompter in the wings, upon any sudden forgetfulness of the words of their songs, would be most awkward and unseemly.
The prompter appears on the scene and demands of the carpenter what he means by opening the trap?
But he was at this time so afflicted with deafness that it was impossible for him to "catch the word" from the prompter at the side of the stage.
It seems strange that this system of posting the prompter in the van instead of on the flank of the actors has never been permanently adopted in this country.
A study of the prompt-book had been promised; but the prompter was not to be found; he was probably at the races, and his book with him.
A prompter could be of little service to a gentleman so fertile in resources.
There was a long pause, during which the prompter several times repeated the words which Beverley should speak.
We say our players advisedly, for the position of the prompter is different on the foreign stage.
To do theprompter justice, he is rarely visible; but his tones, however still and small they may pretend to be, sometimes travel to those whom they do not really concern.
Chetwood, who had been twenty years prompter at Drury Lane, and in 1749 published a "History of the Stage," describes a difficulty that had arisen in regard to printing the playbills.
It is very necessary that their prompter and their conductor should be their near neighbours, able to render them assistance and support upon the shortest notice.
It is a popular notion that, although all persons may not be endowed with histrionic gifts, it is open to everybody to perform the duties of a prompter without preparation or study.
I can see her indignantly forbid the prompter to tie his gay handkerchief over the injury and draw a clean one from her own velvet bag to bind my forehead.
His name was Hering, and he was the prompter at the theatre.
The prompter is to the opera, what the fifth wheel is to a wagon; everything rubs, grates and abrades it, yet the whole concern turns on it.
It is a prevalent but mistaken idea, that the prompter is an impolite man; we happen to know that it is a matter of the deepest concern with him to be obliged to sit with his back to the audience.
You are, indeed, my husband, Pat O'Flannigan, music teacher and prompterto Drury Lane Theatre.
Moreover, he occasionally relieved old Hopkins, the prompter at Drury Lane Theatre; but whatever he did, he did with innate nobility and elegance.
Certainly, I am O'Flannigan, music teacher and prompter at Drury Lane, but as to being your husband, may Heaven confound me if I ever set eyes on you before!
Not even the energy of despair could set me on a level with that strength which his terrific prompter had bestowed upon Wieland.
But if Carwin's were the thrilling voice and the fiery visage which I had heard and seen, then was he the prompter of my brother, and the author of these dismal outrages.
Ellen herself could not have explained or told herself that so she felt; and yet, notwithstanding, all we have written was there, and was the real prompter of that almost passionate embrace.
But he was a fellow of some ability, and must have been the prompter of the work of abstraction; and, having money at times, might have corrupted one of the clerks into his interest.
De Foe, allowing his prejudices to obscure his sagacity, reprobated that suggestion, because he deemed interest a more strenuous prompter than enthusiasm.
Here he became acquainted with Mr. Joseph Younger, who was at the time prompter at Covent Garden theatre, and though no actor himself, knew stage business as well as any man in England.
And while he circulates the glass, Too rapidly the moments pass; At length in haste the prompter sends.
Was bellow'd by the prompter loud-- This cogent reason was allow'd As well by king as noisy crowd.
The thought suggested was that he had a prompter on the roof to whom he was distressfully appealing to supply the true phrase.
We used to laugh about the prompter he seemed to have at the top of the light-well in the sky-light in Holden Chapel.
Judas, I forgot my cue, and the prompter is asleep.
I have, from my Youth, been bred up behind the Curtain, and been a Prompter from the Time of the Restoration.
But, to speak a plainer Truth, this Pension, which was no part of our original Agreement, was merely paid to keep him quiet, and not that we thought it due to so insignificant a Charge as what a Prompter had formerly executed.
The prompterhanded me the manuscript; and Firmin watched me take it, astonished.
The prompter takes his seat, turns on a light, and opens the "book.
The prompter who has the "book" under his arm, is waiting for the manager in order to begin the rehearsal.
All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright, and the prompter has the soiled and tattered manuscripts.
The effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene-shifter.
As we have seen, it was the royal scorn of that petition, backed by a wilful personal espousal of responsibility, which made the king the real prompter of the Declaration of Independence.
New principles, too, have been interpolated into the law of nations, founded neither in justice nor in the usage or acknowledgment of nations.
The lead mines in that district offer so rich a supply of that metal as to merit attention.
The instruction and discipline thus acquired would gradually diffuse through the entire body of the militia that practical knowledge and promptitude for active service which are the great ends to be pursued.
Half-way through the duologue, the official prompter returned with the remark that he had been having a bit of a smoke on the terrace, and that his watch had gone wrong.
The prompter gave the string a jerk in order to assist her.
