What is "actors"

Usage examples of "actors".

Clerval, the actor, had been gathering together a company of actors at Paris, and making her acquaintance by chance and finding her to be intelligent, he assured her that she was a born actress, though she had never suspected it.

When my actors were round me in a ring, they begged me to tell them their parts, but I would not give in on this point.

Everybody was regretting the lack of actors, and the impossibility of enjoying the pleasures of the theatre.

The fact is, that, to satisfy the greedy actors, I abandoned to my comedians, one by one, the seventeen nights I had reserved for myself.

Madame Baletti, and at that time it was the custom in France to call the Italian actors by the names they had on the stage.

The actors surpassed themselves, though they had no prompter, and were loudly applauded.

I knew that careless or idle actors often pay no attention to anything except their own parts, and thus a piece, though well played in its parts, is badly rendered as a whole.

As will be guessed, my invitation was accepted, and Rosalie enjoyed dining with the actors and actresses, and especially hearing herself called Madame Casanova every moment.

He was followed by the French and the Italian comedians, and by the actors and actresses of the opera.

He took his meals every day at a table laid out for thirty persons, and the guests were his actors, actresses, dancers of both sexes, and a few friends.

This is a promise which all actors make to the young girls they marry, and which they never fulfil, simply because their wives never care much about claiming from them the performance of it.

As soon as I announced that I had come for the purpose of engaging a troupe of actors to perform in Corfu, the managers of the two companies then in Otranto came to the parlour to speak to me.

Everything being ready towards evening, I left Otranto with twenty actors, and six large trunks containing their complete wardrobes.

Seeing no acquaintance of mine among the actors or actresses, I made up my mind to go to the play in the evening, and to start early the next day with post-horses.

I was afraid of being discovered, and I did not know how far the German prince would have been pleased if he had found out that he had an indiscreet witness of the heavy and powerless demonstrations of his tenderness, which were a credit to neither of the actors, and which supplied me with ample food for thoughts upon the miseries of mankind.