Being behind the footlights was a constant struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
It is very sparsely furnished, but near the footlights is a large gilt couch, on which Isabelle is lying fast asleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference
A little too much to be drawing for Dickens and that the footlights are the illumination of his scenic world, has so remarkable a sense of. From Wordnik.com. [Picture and Text 1893] Reference
The sash stuck up several inches above the footlights. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
All the footlights of her little secret stage were up. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
The little girl waited at the footlights for -- something. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Drama doesn't end at the footlights these days in Zimbabwe. From Wordnik.com. [Will It Play In Harare?] Reference
There are dimmers for the footlights and the border lights. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
Four or five eager volunteers scrambled over the footlights. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
The footlights lit up with a row of flames, the storm approached. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
The footlights and the apron are in front of the fireproof curtain. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
Why, Lily wanted to have it handed to her across the footlights, like a singer!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
The palm trees are unhomely, the tropical plants seem to stand behind footlights. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His face was in the sideway glare of the footlights which illumined the orchestra. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
And the American musical needs a new generation -- on both sides of the footlights. From Wordnik.com. [Is Broadway Rhythm Back?] Reference
A net was stretched above the stalls, from the footlights to the opening in the roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
If the lips are left their natural color the footlights bleach them white and colorless. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
It is exhilarating, do you know, this feverish existence, this life in front of the footlights. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
After bending over and listening to her instructions, he stepped forward nearer the footlights. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
In the second row just under the footlights she had discovered a face that was strangely familiar. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
Theatre and concert posters shine resplendent, as if illumined by the effulgence of the footlights. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Fogg arose and, wisely affecting not to notice the storm in front of the footlights, continued the scene. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
In this way, old and new facets of this historically important theater will converge under the footlights. From Wordnik.com. [In Washington's musical-heavy new theater season, the show tunes must go on] Reference
You carry this human throng over the footlights and into your soul with a Chinaman's queue and a putty nose. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
The child was still waiting at the footlights, evidently for the expected applause from the higher latitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
The audience rushed for the doors while the actors leaped over the footlights in their mad scramble to escape. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
"The fire of the footlights is not that of the enemy -- above all, for you, who are so sure of winning the battle.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was a heartrending sight, all those things, made for the glitter of the footlights, now displayed in the street. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
After a brief period the most friendly relations were established between the people before and beyond the footlights. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
If you have flowers handed to you over the footlights when you get to be stars, ladies, let it be at the final curtain. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
The hall owner stepped over the low footlights onto the stage, brushing the semi-circle of surprised minstrels to one side. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
General Lee was on his feet, his hand was extended across the footlights, and was quickly met by the preacher's warm grasp. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
In other words, beauty of the street and the home is a vastly different thing from beauty on the stage behind the footlights. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
This is called up and down stage (indicating front to back), and going down this way (to the footlights) is moving down-stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
During the curtain call, the whole cast laid bouquets at the footlights in de Mille's honor, and the audience stood to cheer her. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Is A Champ] Reference
I had noticed it, but supposed it to be connected with some different arrangement they might have made concerning the footlights. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Brodie and Robert had put up the extension to the platform, the footlights and the big green curtains, and had brought over from Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
Two bouquets were handed over the footlights at this point, one a beautiful bunch of pink roses and the other of lilies of the valley. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
On the stage we have the footlights in red, white and blue, a row of each, and overhead are the border lights in the same three colors. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
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