We were received with equal courtesy and ceremony by the president; and were just seated, when a ballet-dancer of Drury-lane entered.

Three years after, at her father's behest, she wedded a writer of ballet music, the Count Gallenberg, to whom Beethoven later advanced money.

The battery was similar to those used by the ballet girls in Drury Lane Theatre, and could be brought into force by a touch and extinguished by the removal of the pressure.

Parties of soldiers kept coming to this window to peer at the exhibits within; and, as they invariably took the civilians for Englishmen who had been caught as spies, we attracted almost as much attention as the Turcos in their funny ballet skirts; in fact I may say we fairly divided the center of the stage with the Turcos.

The ballet-lover's pocket-book: technique without tears for the ballet-lover.

GARD, ALEXIS K. More ballet laughs.

She had adjusted a prodigious silken train, which swept and swirled in many bewildering folds as she slowly turned, courtesied, tripped forward and retreated, with such bending and twisting as would turn a ballet-master mad with envy.

All couples to dance till they drop!" There were a dozen up immediately, amongst whom Dalrymple and Mademoiselle Annette, and Müller with one of the ballet ladies, were the first to start.

After the readings came the concert part of the performance, and then what South chose to call the Moving Tableaux, which was really nothing in the world but ballet-dancing.

In this respect they afford a marked contrast to ballet spectacles.

"My dear, that ballet step is a trifle exaggerated for a lady!"

4. Do a ballet act.

So, all day long, says the poet, they revelled, Apollo and the Muses performing the part of a ballet-troop.

Francis Markrute stood by the fire for a while, and began from there: "You must go right back with me to early days, Sweet Lady," he said, "to a palace in a gloomy city and to an artistea ballet-dancerbut at the same time a great musicienne and a good and beautiful woman, a woman with red, splendid hair, like my niece.

So much importance is given by the newspapers to every thing relating to the histrionic art, that we are daily informed of the whereabout of all the third-rate performers of the minor theatres; that "Mr. Smith, of Sadler's Wells, is engaged to Mr. Ducrow for the ensuing season;" or that "Miss Brown, belonging to the ballet department of the Surrey theatre, has sprained her ankle."

We performed a ballet descriptive of the siege of Troy, and I undertook the part of a river godthe god Scamander, en effet.

The scales fell from the eyes of the young man, and he now saw how it was that dancers are better paid than great poets, and why the ballet forms in diplomatic circles an inexhaustible subject of conversation.

"Oh!" said the manager, "the little ballet interlude.

To the subjective-objective view, it is certainly a ballet pantomime.

"If you will read the whole thing when written by foreign authors, why do you not encourage your own?" "I am sure I don't know," I said, "unless it is on the simple principle that many men enjoy the ballet scene in opera, while they would not permit their wives and daughters to take part in it.

He thought Fred Leslie's exact imitation of him, face, spectacles, voiceeverything was like Henry except the ballet-skirtin the worst taste.