Talbot Potter leaves the stage because a little 'ingenue' understudy tries to break the rules of his company!
Where is the understudyto read Miss Lyston's part?
I told you last week to engage anunderstudy for the women's parts, and you haven't done it.
Yes, I must have made Miss Delamar's understudy misrepresent her.
Miss Delamar's understudy observed him closely for a moment, but he made no sign, and so she turned her eyes again to the fire with a slightly troubled look.
Stuart pondered for some short time as to what sort of a reply Miss Delamar's understudy ought to make to this innocent remark.
Even so Lancelot stood at the altar with Guinevere, as Arthur's understudy for the part of bridegroom.
Very little was left of the trim understudy of Moongarr Bill.
Through the two acts which followed, the understudy kept it up.
There was a hitch in the scenery of the last act; the lighting was not yet repaired; one of the actors of the minor parts was ill, for whom an understudy had not been provided; and the head scene-shifter had sprained his wrist.
It will start in two minutes, and we shall see what theunderstudy can make of it.
The understudy came on, and Marion's heart thrust suddenly at her like a rapier, and left her for dead, staring in front of her.
But players are jealous of one another to a marked degree, and rather than permit their understudy to succeed him, many a performer has gone on when physically unfit.
Mr. DeVere had waited long enough for this opening, and now to have to put on an understudy when the play was on the eve of opening, might mean the loss of his chances.
I'll have to put his understudy in until we can cast someone else.
One might as wellunderstudy the Metropolitan Museum on the chance of its taking a night off.
No," he answered, "we want to clear up the understudy part of it.
Honest, I am getting so thin that before long I won't be able tounderstudy a drop of water in Mr. Hawk's Hippodrome.
He would make a goodunderstudy for a morgue, and that's about all.
I found I couldn't do anything there about searching for Sid, so I resolved to be his understudy and bring fame to him, if it were possible.
Tony questioned his understudy as to what he had found out, and learned that Alexander himself had been privately interviewed.
The understudy was not to question Loveland himself, but, if possible, Alexander, and was not to let the waiter see that he was under fire of attention.
So they're going right ahead, just as if she was to be the star, but when the show opens it'll be little Miss Understudy who'll do all the acting.
The "second girl" was ill; her understudy had been called away to the sick bed of her only surviving aunt, and she had been chosen to play the part at a matinee to see if she could do it.
She had been wired for to resume her part, as her understudy was proving unsatisfactory.
The understudy said: "On the custom of the niggers.
I consulted with my comrade, the understudy of the board.
An extra dancer had accompanied the party as an understudy of one of its members who feared a breakdown.
They went down in the elevator, but the hall-porter was off duty for the night, having left a young understudy in charge.
One can't suppose that he's rich enough to fling all his salary to an understudy while he gads.
But young Marcel wasn't as much use as an understudyfor a dutiful son as I'd once hoped.
I was the understudy for the leading woman; the star had told me that I had exceptional talent, and with the proper direction I should develop into a splendid emotional actress.
My voice is as good as hers, if not better, but I can't get them to let me even understudy her.
It is a small, delicately-formed, delicately-antlered understudy of the big mule deer, and now painfully limited in its distribution.
The Indian sambar deer looks like a short-legged big-bodied understudy of our American elk.
She could tear this woman into pieces--the little poverty-stricken nobody, an understudy in an opera troupe!
Bivens's increasing devotion had made this easy and on Harriet's return from Europe with an engagement as understudy in grand opera his life settled down once more to the steady development of his ideal of service to the common people.
Honest, though, I'm no understudy for a low card, am I?
I played understudy to Motor Matt and lifted the sparks.
I have been understudy by night, and proud I am to record that Nurse proclaims me unusually "handy" for a member of the "laity".
It means that no one woman, be she ever so competent, can keep up the fight single-handed for twelve hours at a stretch, and that an understudy to work under her may mean the very turning of the scale.
