“Not so but far otherwise. Now, after the eager audience have feasted their eyes on the sight, and you know, it isn’t to be a motionless picture,——”
“Then it must be a motion picture!”
“It is, in this sense. The ladies and the men walk about, or languidly wave their peacock feather fans, or sink gracefully on divans, but of course, no words are spoken.”
“Pantomime, then.”
“Yes; rather like a pantomime. Well, then, in comes an Oriental juggler, who does tricks,——”
“I see! Oh, Phil, that’s splendid! Just what I wanted! And he does real tricks,—good tricks,—and they interest the audience of themselves, and at the same time there’s the beautiful scenic effect going on!”
“Yes,—a poor scheme,—but mine own.”
“A fine scheme! Oh, I see enormous possibilities in it!”
“Then perhaps on another occasion, a Sylvan scene,—a woodland effect,—and in it give a bit of ‘As You Like It,’ or something of that sort. Another time, a Venetian scene, and you can sing with the gondoliers.”
“Yes, yes, I see it all!”