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... players might come tum- bling through the streets , singing songs , doing improvised tricks on the spur of the moment . This was a sort of rough- and - ready vaudeville . Later , when the Roman theatre had been stamped out , it was the ...
... players might come tum- bling through the streets , singing songs , doing improvised tricks on the spur of the moment . This was a sort of rough- and - ready vaudeville . Later , when the Roman theatre had been stamped out , it was the ...
Page 131
... players continued to visit Paris , and to tour the countryside every season . They did not always come in dignity , as representatives of art , but frequently as attractions hired by quack doctors to draw the crowds . The spectacle of a ...
... players continued to visit Paris , and to tour the countryside every season . They did not always come in dignity , as representatives of art , but frequently as attractions hired by quack doctors to draw the crowds . The spectacle of a ...
Page 141
... players . When the play was over it was painfully evident that they had failed dismally . The atmosphere could be cut with a knife . Perhaps they would be curtly dismissed and would have to return forever to the provinces . Hastily ...
... players . When the play was over it was painfully evident that they had failed dismally . The atmosphere could be cut with a knife . Perhaps they would be curtly dismissed and would have to return forever to the provinces . Hastily ...
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