Harrison prevailed upon the shoemaker to build a small stage in the room the troupe had rented for rehearsing purposes.
When the minstreltroupe arrived, hundreds were at the depot.
When the sled was loaded and all the troupe comfortably seated therein, it was discovered that the driver was not in sight.
As he emerged from the hotel he was met with jeers from the troupe as they started off up the old pike, not so rapidly as Alfred and Uncle Joe once traversed it on Black Fan, but at a pace that put all in good humor.
Alfred was not altogether pleased with the idea of Lin bossing the whole job, fearing that many members of his troupe would be disgruntled over her domineering manner.
All were instructed to spread the impression that the troupewas from Boston.
Harrison would be deposed, the minstrel troupe would go out, travel to distant parts and make money, more money than Alfred wanted; he would divide it with all his best friends, he would make all happy.
I wouldn't be caught dead with anothertroupe like the last one I was with.
They carried a troupeon their own account over the Penna.
A narrow-gauge railroad, a train with a disabled engine and a disgusted minstrel troupe arrived at 3 p.
The landlord locked up the hall with all the belongings of the troupe nor would he release the goods until the rent was paid in full.
The members of the troupe sympathized with Alfred.
His money gone, he was made treasurer of the troupehis prodigality had ruined.
He was simply to accompany the troupe as a guest of Mr. Field.
He is making up a besotted mind to say, "Fly with me," when the Karinski troupe vanishes Moscow-wards and an inexorable contract drives him to Dantzic.
A stage is at once erected right in front of the great man's door, and the beating of a drum and the shrill notes of the fife advertise the neighbours that the troupe has arrived and is at the point of beginning to act.
Mr. Ringold decided to take his theatrical troupe to Arizona, there to make films for a number of Western dramas.
The day came to bid farewell to Flagstaff, which had been the stopping place of the theatrical troupefor several months.
The one indisputable fact about Sharaku is that he was originally a No-performer in the troupe of the Daimyo of Awa.
Sharaku was, as we have said, professionally a member of the No-troupe of the Daimyo of Awa.
In the meantime Del Mar sent off two telegrams to New York, the first to Harris Collins' animal training school, where his troupe of dogs was boarding through his vacation: "Sell my dogs.
Wilton Davis had assembled his troupe ahead of time, so that the change of programme was five days away.
Harris Collins bothered him no more with trying to teach him tricks, and, one day, loaned him as a filler-in to a man and woman who had lost three of their dog-troupe by pneumonia.
What the baggageman did not know, and what Peterson did know, was that of these thirty-five dogs not one was a surviving original of the troupe when it first started out four years before.
Failing in this, it was made into a see-saw dog who, for the rest of the turn, filled into the background of a troupe of twenty dogs.
The only way they left the troupe and its cages was by dying.
From here Madame is guided by the little peasant girl to the entrance of an ancient garden, where she perceives the whole troupe in the costume of gardeners and garden girls.
Where thetroupe travelled about Europe, the lads were exceptionally intelligent, and several of them could talk fair French and German.
Many of the children are taken from the very lowest dregs of humanity, and are bound over by their parents to the owner of a troupe for a certain number of years.
Another boy in the same troupe told me he had over L9 in the bank.
There was a certain little lad belonging to a troupe the owner of which had rescued him from the gutter principally out of charity.
Mr. Edwin Bale, who is himself a fine specimen of the healthy trapezist, smiled pityingly at my question, and asked me to come and watch his troupe practise.
A troupe gets as much as L70 or L80 a day when hired out for fetes or public entertainments.
A troupe of English comedians, which in the year 1611 visited Koenigsberg, consisted of thirty-five members, nineteen of whom are designated in the records as actors, and sixteen as instrumentalists.
No doubt most of those designated as actors were also musical; but the circumstance of nearly one half of the troupe being professional musicians sufficiently shows how greatly the entertainments consisted of musical performances.
An opera troupe was there at the time who engaged him as first violoncellist.
The little troupe had been well drilled by Thenard, who took a great deal of trouble, not only with their diction, but with their movements.
When at Narbonne, in the department of Aude, a poor troupe of comedians found themselves in difficulties.
But when the entire troupe presented themselves to the Abbe and offered him the full half, he said: "No!
Her shrill outcryes and shriekes so loud did bray, 6 That all the woodes and forestes did resownd; A troupe of Faunes and Satyres far away 8 Within the wood were dauncing in a rownd, Whiles old Syluanus slept in shady arber sownd.
Lily had to accept a bag of cakes to share with the troupe when they had their tea.
Or else, for once, I'll get up a troupe and take it round the world myself, with you in it!
Pa, now that he was the owner of a troupe and sure of his position, would not have been sorry to be noticed by Harrasford, just to impress Mr. Fuchs and show him what they thought of Lily in London.
To see Lily's place at the Castle filled by another troupe of the Hauptmanns--the Hauptmanns again, those fat freaks!
She knew that the troupe earned a great deal and that the troupe was herself.
But she did the troupe the honor of going to see their performance at the Castle.
I'd like to beat the fat freaks in their own country and show Pa that I don't need his old troupe to star with!
Pa had run down on the previous day to see a troupe of cyclists, the famous Pawnees, who were back from the Continent, on their way to New York, and performing that week at the Brighton Hippodrome.
Illustration: THE BOY WITH THE GREEN EYES] She had learned nothing new about Pa, except that the troupestill existed, but in quite a small way, of course.
Their agent had launched into slanders and even insults to prevent the marriage, which would have split up the troupe and broken the contract.
And he would have the troupe of troupes, he'd show them, jolly soon!
When I left you," she said, slowly, "I went with the opera troupe abroad.
Moreover, as the dramatic company still continued its efforts on behalf of its members--only the opera troupe having been dissolved--she remained at the theatre.
From one barge to another the gondolas drifted, finally clustering round the middle barge of the Troupe San Marco, which offered the best voices.
The tenor of the San Marco troupe rose with the prima donna.
The castaways of the American Comic Opera troupe were on the anxious seat this morning.
The ballet troupe is quite large, and the action of the piece goes on incessantly for about an hour and a quarter.
The cost of maintaining this troupe must be great, and evidently the ladies composing it are well paid, as they drive daily in fine carriages on the Shoobra road, and dress like countesses, who have fortunes in their own right.
I doubt if the manager of any theatre ever dared to go quite as far in dressing or undressing his ballet troupe as did the manager of the Ghawazee at Keneh.
Greater still was the curiosity aroused when Baby Jane and her troupe came to a stop in a shallow round hollow with sloping banks like the rising tiers of seats in a real circus.
But Baby Jane and her troupe sadly needed the rest they enjoyed at tea-time, during which they made plans for the play that was to end the day's pleasure.
Their real test hasn't come yet, but when it does come you take a tip from me and string your bets along with this minstrel troupe to win.
It was an impressive document with a heavy headline; Troupe de Theatre Anglaise.
Yes, I have a troupe to sing and dance at Vichy and in the towns, Clermont Ferrand, Lyon, everywhere.
When I was at Auckland, in New Zealand, I went to the theatre to see a troupe of Japanese jugglers.
I had seen the identical troupe in London, and "All Right" was amongst them.
