At another time we were arranging some tableaux for one of my children's parties, and had chosen the subjects from Thackeray's fairy tale of the "Rose and the Ring.
I came to our friend in some perplexity, and said, "Dear Mr. Andrew, in the tableaux this evening Dr.
Tableaux are rather tame unless you have most beautiful dresses," sniffed Muriel.
He was certain that her nature had much in common with his own, and that the future which was now to be unrolled was to be a series of tableaux as charming as this first one.
If, however, plays are not successful and cease to amuse, the amateur stage can be utilized for tableaux vivants, which are always pretty, and may be made very artistic.
A set of Christmas tableaux can be arranged, giving groups of the early Christians going into the Catacombs as the Pagans are going out, with a white shaft of light making a cross between them.
Now that we have lady orchestras, why not have them on the stage, or let them be asked to play occasional music between the acts, or while the tableaux are on?
I should like to go; I enjoy tableaux ever so much; but papa does not approve of making tableaux of Scripture scenes.
We had some tableaux last evening, the principal characters being sustained by Mr. Farley and Miss Ellen Slade.
Behind him came huge floats depicting in startling tableaux the hideous menace of the gooseberry.
Brahms had no theories to promulgate, no gorgeous tableaux to portray.
Mr. Beresford was reading the ballad, and we took up the tableaux at the point where Hynde Horn has come from a far countrie to see why the diamonds in the ring given him by his own true love have grown pale and wan.
Sometimes the connection between the tableaux and the scenes is not easily traced; but even then the pictures justify themselves by their own beauty.
The marvelously varied costumes and the grouping of thesetableaux are the work of the drawing-teacher, Ludwig Lang.
He with secret knowledge of the tableaux (indeed he was stitching himself a robe to be worn by King Cophetua at the time and hastily bundling it under the table) regretted that he was already engaged.
And on the other hand, I don't want her to spoil mine, for what's to prevent her going on with the tableaux till church-time next morning if she wishes to keep Miss Bracely away from my house?
It appeared that she had a better nature than Lucia credited her with, but to expect her not to tell everybody about the tableaux would be putting virtue to an unfair test.
The merit of the tableaux does not consist in the number of the audience," she said.
To this Lucia cordially assented, but she felt that a husband and wife sitting together and looking at another husband and wife doing tableauxwould be an unusual entertainment, and not characteristic of Riseholme's best.
We three can't very well do tableaux for Miss Olga to look at.
For what had caused the failure and flatness of her tableaux (omitting the unfortunate incident about the lamp) but the absence of Olga?
The rehearsals for the impromptu tableaux meantime went steadily forward behind closed doors, and Georgie wrestled with twenty bars of the music of the "Awakening of Brunnhilde.
She began to waver about the tableaux and to consider dinner instead.
There was the riddle of the Quantocks to solve: there were the tableaux vivants imminent: there was the little red-haired boy coming in soon.
The city gives itself up to mirth and gayety, with an abandon only paralleled by that witnessed in Italy on the same occasion; and the day is concluded by receptions, tableaux and balls.
In the evening Pennsylvania history was represented by ten tableaux; eleven tableaux presented the illustrious women of history; and ten tableaux gave the principal scenes in the Romayana, the great poem of India.
Isabel roused herself to say that tableaux were very dull work to all save the actors, and soon were mere weariness to them.
While these tableauxare shown the poem should be recited in entirety, and, if thought advisable, more tableaux might be readily added.
Before arranging tableaux vivants, ask some older person than yourselves to take charge.
Why couldn't we have tableaux representing all the Hilltop stories we know about?
In front of this was a low platform which dated back to Uncle William's time, and had often done duty for tableaux and such things; on it were two chairs and a table for the President and Secretary.
Next day, early in the morning, I was summoned to a rehearsal of some tableaux vivants in which I had to take part.
And they were gratified, to their heart's content, for the tableaux came!
These two tableaux had hardly reached their climax, when in rushed Frederic Antonio Gustavus, with his capacious apron full of "birds he killed in the yard, down by the barns.
She ceased to anticipate tableaux vivants,--nothing could be done with such material.
She was wondering how she could excuse herself to her cousin--whether her mother would really make her give up the tableaux for that evening.
Let there be a first-rate orchestra, a book of the plot in hands of the audience, and tableaux vivants or dissolving views to illustrate it--as illustration is still necessary for the illiterate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tableaux" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
