The Book of Tableaux and Shadow Pantomimes - Containing A Choice Collection of Tableaux Vivants - Living Pictures Embracing Moving Tableaux Charades Mother Goose Tableaux and Fairy-tale - Tableaux for Arranging the Stage - Costuming the Characters

Frost, Sarah Annie

Published by Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, New York, 1869

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180 Pages. The cloth quarter-spine has a two-inch tear near the top. Front and back boards are identical and are light yellow with red lettering and decorations and show light wear. No marks of any sort. Interior text pages are bright, very tight, and white. The little book of Tableaux Vivants now offered. to the public, is intended to fill a want, long and loudly expressed by the amateurs who are fond of this class of amusements. The complaint is made every winter of a want of suitable subjects, or of directions how most effectively to group the performers. The old established pictures are worn threadbare, .and many are not able to take the time, or command the books to search out new ones. The writer has endeavored to give a variety of pleasing pictures, easily costumed, grouped and arranged, suited to all ages, each variety of wardrobe and scene. Those requiring elaborate costumes and scenery must be appropriated by performers who can command an amateur theatre, but there will remain an abundance for such as have only their parlors for a stage and their every-day wardrobes for costumes. We know it is not easy to dress Queen Elizabeth and place her in a forest, at five minutes notice, but the good nature of the audience may generally be relied upon to forgive deficiencies, and the amateurs, themselves will be surprised to find how a little practice will sharpen their ingenuity in the arrangement of scenes and dresses. Seller Inventory # 20883

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Book of Tableaux and Shadow Pantomimes -...

Publisher: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, New York

Publication Date: 1869

Binding: Hard Back

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

Edition: First Edition