87 examples of prompter in sentences

Produced in December, 1670 at the Duke's Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields, The Jealous Bridegroom, says the veteran prompter, 'wrote by Mrs. Behn, a good play and lasted six days'.

You are mistaken in supposing total deafness to be an indispensable qualification in a candidate for the position of prompter to a theatre.

The first ring, and the second ring, was now but a trick of the prompter's bellwhich had been, like the note of the cuckoo, a phantom of a voice, no hand seen or guessed at which ministered to its warning.

Dick Huntley was, perhaps, the book-holder or prompter who is subsequently mentioned, and whom Will Summer, in the licence of his character, calls by his name.

[140] I pray you, hold the book well, was doubtless addressed to the prompter, or as he is called in the following passage, from the Induction to Ben Jonson's "Cynthia's Revels," 1601, the book-holder: one of the children of Queen Elizabeth's chapel is speaking of the poet.

" Juanito sat down in content, and as a mark of gratitude stuck out his tongue at his prompter, who had arisen blushing with shame and muttering incoherent excuses.

The MANAGER turns toward the audience, and resting one hand on the prompter's box, addresses them:

Pray note that Aesop's hump to-night does duty as prompter's box!

The publisher of the letters was William Rufus Chetwood, later the prompter at Drury Lane Theatre, but then just commencing bookseller at the sign of Cato's Head, Covent Garden.

humorous piecebut it was not well acted, from the simple circumstance of the actors not having their parts by heart, and the illusion of the stage is destroyed by hearing the prompter's voice full as loud as that of the actors, who follow his promptings something in the same way that the clerk follows the clergyman in that prayer of the Anglican liturgy which says "we have erred and strayed from our ways like lost sheep."

Another night at the theatre I saw a piece call'd II furioso, a comédie larmoyante which was interesting and well given; but the voice of the prompter was occasionally too loud.

It was very badly performed; the actors were not perfect in their parts, and the prompter's voice was as loud as usual.

The French, whose arrangements were far better, and whose movements were prompter than our own, were always complaining of British procrastination; while the English General went quietly on his own way, and certainly tried sorely the patience of our allies.

She obtained further notoriety after my departure, by kicking and cuffing a prompter, and calling the proprietor a dd scoundrel, a dd liar, and a dd thief, for which she was committed for trial.

In the memoirs of the celebrated French actor, Preville, we find the following letter, addressed by the manager of a strolling company to his prompter: "At last, my dear boy, here we are safe in Provins.

But when I" "It's no compliment to me," she cut in, the prompter to admit the truth because it would make him feel better.

"To stand prompter to a pausing, yet a ready comprehension.

Oh, for a look at the prompter's copy, the corner of which I could see when I leaned forward!

After the performance was over, Betterton scolded old Downes, the prompter, for "sending a child to him instead of a man advanced in years.

"He steps up to Downs, the prompter, and cry'd, 'Zounds, Downs, what sucking scaramouch have you sent on there?' 'Sir,' replied Downs, 'He's good enough for a Spaniard; the part is small.'

Thus, says Dowries the Prompter, p. 22: "The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was made some time after into a tragi-comedy, by Mr. James Howard, he preserving Romeo and Juliet alive; so that when the tragedy was revived again, 'twas played alternately, tragical one day, and tragi-comical another, for several days together.

About the year 1735 he was concern'd with another gentleman in writing a paper called the Prompter; all those mark'd with a B. were his.

Oh, for a look at the prompter's copy, the corner of which I could see when I leaned forward!

Much I questioned him; And every word he uttered, on my ears Fell flatter than a cagèd parrot's note, 100 That answers unexpectedly awry, And mocks the prompter's listening.

He was a prompter, but got disgusted and gave it up; for about fifteen years he did not go to the theatre; then he went and saw a play, cried with emotion, felt sad, and, when his wife asked him on his return how he liked the theatre, he answered: "I do not like it.

87 examples of  prompter  in sentences