The audience at the Society Theatre is a special one; as at the plays in which the favourite actor-managers and jeunes premiers perform there are always far more women than men, at this theatre there are always far more men than women.

I got into the office with it all right, and, just as it was getting dark, a cab drove up to the wharf and the actor-chap jumped out with a big leather bag.

In almost all the theatres, even where the conditions are considered above criticism, the lavatories reserved for the ladies are, by a curious arrangement, generally on the floor where most of the actors dress.

The actor folk also celebrated a festival, provided a spectacle, and set up and dedicated images of Gaius and Drusilla.

Two were dramatic critics, others artist and actor friends.

He was always reading, or busy in the greenroom studying by turns the pictures of past actor-humanity with which the walls were peopled, or the present realities of actors who came in and out of the room.

I join in the general hope that this, the first play under his actor-management, will go well.

There is onetwothree what you call burlesque places, right by me; and no sooner do they close up, than right away those actor peoples come to buy.

But time forbids me further speech, My tongue must stop her race; My time is come, I must be dumb, And give the actors place.

Thespis made a single actor play before the people; this was the beginning of theatrical shows.

Garganum inugire putes nemus aut mare Thuscum, Tanto cum strepitu ludi spectantur; et artes, Divitiæque peregrina, quibus oblitus actor Cum stetit in Scena, concurrit dextera lævæ.

In such a case a wise manager intrusts the comic part to an actor whois not comic.

At the close of the season Collier agreed with Swiney and his actor-colleagues to give up to them 'Drury Lane' with its actors, take in exchange the 'Haymarket' with its singers, and be sole Director of the Opera; the actors to pay Collier two hundred a year for the use of his license, and to close their house on the Wednesdays when an opera was played.