Word: tableau
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...cast, 'tis true, had a pretty flimsy foundation to build upon. Much of the humour was stale and slapstick, and in not a few cases meager ideas succeeded only through the brilliance in their execution. Yet at other times this was all forgotten in the splendor of some tableau or the diversion of one of the more successful comedy scenes...
...usual white horse and dog tableau was well replaced by Maria Lo's "Porcelains", while the ice dancing was this time in a weird spectacle Behind the Masque...
...second act is the dungeon, and for a moment, just after the curtain is up, there is a true dramatic touch in the sight of Godred praying in the moonlight. Lady Silchester visits him in his cell and is discovered by Lord Henry Fitzwalter, who loves her. Tableau: frightened heroine, brave hero, scurvy villain. Godred conquers by means of his "evil...
...editor with no hesitant hand draws aside the curtain to reveal such figures as that of the "Dismal Science," surrounded by her ill-fed devotees. The tableau has its lesson...
Besides the pageant two short plays will be produced in which there are still a few parts vacant. In the spectacle an opportunity will be given for chorus and tableau work...