In proof of this fact, comic actors are quite as often dull and solemn people, as droll ones, in private life.

"The actor is always the nominative case.

Sit in a full theatre and you will think you see so many lines drawn from the circumference of so many ears, while the actor is the centre.

The actors were professionals who had been well drilled in their parts and the plot developed quickly in the dialogue between Madeleine, the erring wife, and Aristide, the recreant husband, who had fled from fashionable Paris, met upon the road and joined this troupe of Caravaners that they might taste life together in rural simplicity and security.

FRIEND-"So your great Russian actor was a total failure?" MANAGER-"Yes.

I observe, of all men living, a worthy actor in one kind is the strongest motive of affection that can be; for, when he dies, we cannot be persuaded any man can do his parts like him.

And yet, her whole existence was a tragedy, every actor was an executioner, the curtain rose amidst shrieks and fell upon corpses, and the only shifting of the scenes was from blood to blood.

The actors were all sailors of the brigade, the ladies' parts being taken by young boatswains' mates.

Composing for the stage had been hitherto, like the preparation of the stage costume, a subsidiary employment of the actor or a mechanical service performed for him; with Naevius the relation was inverted, and the actor now became the servant of the composer.

An actor who had supported Macready with credit was just the actor likely to be useful to a manager who was producing a series of plays by Shakespeare.

"This actor, doer, or producer of the action, is the nominative.

Hay (reading): Our revels now are ended; these our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.

From the Spanish Conquest to the War of Independence: here the principal actors were maritime explorers, buccaneers, and mercantile adventurers; (2).

But what would a tragedy be in which the actors were all Hamlets, or rather scraps of Hamlets?

Fortunately for me, Mr. Bradlaugh had a splendid collection of works on the subject, and before he left England he brought to me two cabs full of books, French and English, from all points of view, aristocratic, ecclesiastical, democratic, and I studied these diligently and impartially until the French Revolution became to me as a drama in which I had myself taken part, and the actors therein became personal friends and foes.

Although you had no show to offer, you said "ding" three timesas is the ancient custom of the stage when the actors are readyand drew them wide apart.

The absurd question is often asked, whether an actor is ever the character he represents throughout a whole play.

The last male actor that took a woman's character on the stage was Edward Kynaston, noted for his beauty (1619-1687).

The first female actor for hire was Mrs. Saunderson, afterwards Mrs. Betterton, who died in 1712.

But the worthy priest checked him: "Say the reciter, my dear boy; actor is not a word for self-respecting people.

In "sad civility" once Garrick sate To see a Play, mangled in form and state; Plebeian Shakspeare must the words supply, The actors all were Foolsof Quality.

To him, personation is easy; and, moreover, an actor is precisely the person to whom the idea of disguise and impersonation would occur.

For instance, that admirable actor and entertainer, Eric Lewis, is a protégé of mine, and you could not have a better man than he.

You are no more a Terror, than Gil-Pérez the actor is Talma; the knocks you receive have pushed aside your false nose; it is in vain that you decree, that you rob, that you incarcerate; you are too grotesque to be terrible.

The sole actors in them were the soldiers themselves, of whom the handsomest and most active had previously been selected, and exercised in the various evolutions and dances.