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Miranda: "If you'll sit down,
I'll bear your logs the while."
Tempest Act III, Scene 1

Identifier: theatricalcircus00je (find matches)
Title: Theatrical and circus life;
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Jennings, John Joseph, 1853-1909. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Theater Circus
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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sharp pull at the rope will effect it.Less atrocious efforts of the elements may be obtainedwith a slighter exertion of muscle at the rope or belt.The wind machine is a very necessary adjunct of thesestorm effects, and it is to be found in every large thea-tre, furnishing a nipping and an eager air or oneof those howling blasts that make night desolute andday disastrous. The wind machine may be moved toany part of the stage. Sometimes it is behind thedoor of a hut through which snow is fiercely driven,and at other times it may be in the side scenes, or anylocality to which or through which the storm is rush-ing. It is an awful funny thing to the man at the windmachine to think of the cold chill he sends down theback of the sensitive play-goer as the wind whistlesacross the scene in which poor blind Louise, in the Two Orphans/ figures, or that scene in Ours THE ILLUSIONS OF THE STAGE 173 where Lord Shendryn is at the mercy of the pitilessstorm. The wind that makes the warm blood frigid
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FERDINAND AND MIRANDA. Miranda: — II youll sit down, Ill bear your logs the while. Temped, Act, III., Scene 1. under such circumstances is very easily constructed.A cylinder from which extend paddles is set in a suit- 174 THE ILLUSIONS OF THE 8TAOK. able frame and above its top is stretched a piece ofgrosgrain silk. The silk is stationary, but the cylinderand paddles are operated by means of a crank andsometimes by a crank. Swift motion produceswoeful gusts of the windy article, and a steady blastmay be duplicated by patiently working the machine.When the property-man is driven to the necessity ofproviding rain and wind in theatrical districts that donot boast of modern appliances he obtains a rain effectby rolling bird-shot over brown paper that has beenpasted around a hoop, ami the wind is raised by swing-ing around a heavy piece of gas-hose. This kind ofthing is called faking the wind or rain. When real water is used on the stage to simulaterain, as in the first act of the »•

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