I felt very shy when I arrived in the greenroom.

The greenroom had no secrets for him; he could place your plays for you with some manager; he could obtain for you all sorts of favors.

As a faithful critic, who should not be satisfied with viewing the piece from a distance, he wished to examine the actresses at first hand, so he had mingled in the groups of admirers and gallants, had penetrated into the greenroom, where was whispered and talked a French required by the situation, a market French, a language that is readily comprehensible for the vender when the buyer seems disposed to pay well.

While there prevailed the passing tumult occasioned by those who crowded one another to get into the greenroom and felicitate the actresses and by those who were going to make calls on the ladies in the boxes, some expressed their opinions of the play and the players.

The rumor started somewhere that it belonged to Simoun, and was confirmed: no one had seen the jeweler in the reserved seats, the greenroom, or anywhere else.

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After you found me, or rather I found youyou, the critic, the arbiter of the greenroom, the highly-organised do-nothingsteaching others how to do nothing most gracefully; the would-be Goethe who must, for the sake of his own self-development, try experiments on every weak woman whom he met.

SEE Moses, Montrose J. Letters from greenroom ghosts.

SEE Moses, Montrose J. Letters from greenroom ghosts.

The manager had his wine, and the actor his brandy and water, in the greenroom; before leaving the town, Munden sent for his bill at the next tavern14 glasses as many shillings.

The one hell which imagination must conceive as most hellish is to be eternally acting a play without even the narrowest and dirtiest greenroom in which to be human.

Sometimes I could hardly keep my eyes open when I was on the stage, and often when my scene was over, I used to creep into the greenroom and forget my troubles and my art (if you can talk of art in connection with a child of eight) in a delicious sleep.

It came to me in the greenroom, the window-seat of which was a favorite haunt of mine.

Although so much of my early life is vague and indistinct, I can always see and hear Mr. Harley as I saw and heard him that night, and I can always recollect the view from the greenroom window.

All "calls" were made from the greenroom in those days, and its atmosphere was, I think, better than that of the dressing-room in which nowadays actors and actresses spend their time during the waits.

The greenroom at the Princess's was often visited by distinguished people, among them Planché, the archaeologist, who did so much for Charles Kean's productions, and Macready.

I went off to the greenroom, but even from there I could still hear the voices: "Hubert!

Meanwhile old Ryder had been striding up and down the greenroom in a perfect fury.

When the message came to the greenroom that we were to take the call, he strode across the stage to the entrance, I running after him and quite unable to keep up with his long steps.

The greenroom at the Royalty was a very pretty little place, and Madame Albina sometimes had supper-parties there after the play.

At the Haymarket there were simply no bounds to what was said in the greenroom.

When I was playing the piano once in the greenroom at the Queen's Theater, he came in and listened.

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.

These readings, which took place sometimes in the greenroom or Beefsteak Room at the Lyceum, sometimes at his house in Grafton Street, were wonderful.

There was a small room at the top of the stairs, a sort of greenroom for the performers.