Ingredients
- one picture
- three fishers
- 63 ing through the rye
Directions
Poems may be illustrated by a series of living pictures. This is more interesting than simply to personify some one picture. Any of the magazine pictures will give ideas for tableaux. Many of these can be represented with music, keeping the musicians in the background out of sight. Many of the scenes in song may be represented in this way. Will give one, as for example, the " Mistletoe Bough." First represent a room decorated with green, a company assembled, gayly dressed, and (lancing, while a lady or gentleman behind the scene sings the verse represented in distinct tones, and so on through the whole song, the last scene representing the children in a lumber room opening an old chest and exposing a skeleton, old flowers, etc. " Auld Robin Grey " and " The Three Fishers " are easily represented. Still another variety of tableaux is a song represented in pantomine, for instance, the song of "Blue Beard," or " O. They Marched Through the Town." "A Gypsy Camp " makes a very pretty tableaux. " The Madonna," " Com-
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ing Through the Rye," "An Artist's Studio," "Paul and Virginia" (under an umbrella), "Saturday Night" — the mother scrubbing her young hopeful's face ; all of Rogers' group of statuary make excellent subjects for tableaux vivants.