CarnivalD. Appleton, 1912 - 410 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Alfie asked Jenny Aunt baby ballet Barnsbury called Camden Town station Castleton Charlie child Clacton corner course Covent Garden cried Danby dancer dancing darling dear door dream dress dressing-room Edie eyes father feel funny glad Glasgow Granfa gray Hagworth Street hair hand hansom cab heart hearts afire Irene Islington Jenny looked Jenny Pearl Jenny thought Jenny's jolly kiss kitchen laughed Lilli Vergoe little girl London Madame Aldavini Madge married Maudie Maurice Maurice drew mind Miss Ragstead morning mother murmured never nice night Nightman Number once Orient pantomime Perhaps pink Purkiss Raeburn Ronnie round Ruby seemed silly sister sleep studio suddenly suffragette suppose talk tarlatan tell theater There's thing Timpany tion told Trewhella turned Valérie wait walked What's whispered window wish wonder young Frank
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 381 - There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared!— Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!
עמוד 323 - I have money, and I have real estate," he says. The girl has read in novels that it is better to be an old man's darling than a young man's slave, and so she may be drawn by the commercial offering.
עמוד 125 - stage door johnnies' who 'often regarded the ladies of the ballet as easy prey' were misled in their perceptions, for the dancers were independent of masculine patronage ... They might desire applause over the footlights, but under the moon they were free from the necessity for favour. They had, with all its incidental humiliations, the self-respect which a great art confers. 1929: 141 Mackenzie continues with a description of how the appeal and apparent sensuality of the ballet girls on stage contrasted...
עמוד 349 - ... being bounded on the west by St Ives itself and on the east by Godrevy lighthouse below the cliffs of Dead Man's Cove. To my pleasure I saw that the towans at the back of Riviere were covered with cowslips. Mostly these towans presented to the beach a low line of serrated cliffs some thirty feet high; from time to time they would break away to gullies full of fine, drifted sand, whose small cavities hoarded snailshells wind-dried to an ethereal lightness and rabbit-bones bleached and honey-combed...
עמוד 200 - ... But as a rule, she avoided clayey places, indeed, she seldom walked at all (EF Benson, The Challoners, Sixp. Ed., p. 10). But even in this form the statement cannot be called correct. In the following quotations the phrase 'at all' occurs in sentences that are affirmative both in form and in meaning: So the Second Empire Masquerade was planned and debated a long time before it actually happened. That it happened at all (= Dutch: nog, toch nog) was due to the death of Maurice's great-aunt (Mackenzie,...
עמוד 123 - It existed like a monument to the despair of ambition. The Orient stifled young life. The Corps de Ballet had the engulfing character of conventual vows. When a girl joined it, she cut herself off from the world. She went there fresh, her face a mist of roses, hope burning in her heart, fame flickering before her eyes. In a few years she would inevitably be pale with the atmosphere, with grinding work and late hours. She would find it easy to buy spirits cheaply in the canteen underneath the stage....
עמוד 121 - ... same as ever. Dancers had gone; beauties had shrivelled ; but their ghosts haunted the shadowy interior. The silver-footed coryphees now kept lodging-houses; the swanlike Ballerinas wore elastic stockings; but their absence was filled by others: they were as little missed as the wave that has broken. The lean old vanities quizzed and ogled the frail ladies of the Promenade and sniffed the smoke-wreathed air with a thought of pleasures once worth enjoyment.
עמוד 121 - ... lean old vanities quizzed and ogled the frail ladies of the Promenade and sniffed the smoke-wreathed air with a thought of pleasures once worth enjoyment. They spent now an evening of merely sentimental dissipation, but because it was spent at the Orient, not entirely wasted; for the unchanged theater testified to the reality of their youth.
עמוד 120 - On fine summer dusks, in a mist of golden light, it possessed a certain magic of gayety; seemed to capture something of the torch-lit merriment of a country fair. As one loitered on the island, lonely and meditative, the Orient was alluring, blazed upon the vision like an enchanted cave, or offered to the London wanderer a fancy of the scents and glossy fruits and warblers of the garden where Camaralzaman lost Badoura; and in autumn, stained by rosy sunsets, the theater expressed the delicate melancholy...
עמוד 83 - Great problems arose in Hagworth Street out of Jenny's embarkation upon the ship of life. So long as she had been merely a pupil of Madame Aldavini's, family opposition to her choice of a profession had slumbered ; but with the prospect of her speedy debut, it broke out again very fiercely.