Download or read book George Mandeville s Husband written by Elizabeth Robins and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...single rehearsal and " show them all how." She had heard that the best dramatists invariably did this, even those who had no natural instinct for acting or stage-man aging. It was proverbial that actors were singularly unintelligent, and that all their best "hits" had been suggested to them by the author or by friends in front-. She herself had helped several actors with valuable hints, and had often been told it was an inestimable loss to the theatre that she had not gone on the stage. "No, no," said Mrs. Harley, as though the suggestion smacked of 'sacrilege, "you were destined for the higher walks of creation--let the puppets dance at your dictation." But at present George Mandeville did the dancing. The first evening that she read her " Act I." she was very nervous. She had her large chair placed in the corner of the drawingroom, with the seltzer, her smelling-salts, and two pocket-handkerclliefs. But in spite of these sustaining allies, her voice shook and the hand that held the big square pamphlet was trembling visibly. Her agitation reacted upon her audience. The distinguished lady had never trembled when reading a favourite chapter out of a manuscript novel, but, as she had told them at dinner, there was " something strangely agitating about a play." Mrs. Harley sat n_ear her on a low chair, posing enraptured attention; but George Mandeville's sister Maria had been infected by the reader's nervousness, and fidgeted about on the sofa by the door, as though she were trying in vain to find an attitude at once comfortable and appropriate. ' The one total stranger present was the probable cause of much of George Mandeville's anxiety---an inoffensive-looking little man, ...
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