Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1894 — Arranging Home Tableaux. [ARTICLE]

Arranging Home Tableaux.

To get to the actual working details the first thing to do is to select your room, writes Edith Townsend Everett in an article on “Helps in Arranging Tableaux” in the February Ladies’ Home Journal- One that connects by folding doors with the one to serve as auditorium is the best to choose. Let the entire space occupied by the doors be filled in with black gauze across the opening, and the foot and top lights placed behind it. This arrangement produces the effect of a thin mist, lights enough to be easily seen through, and yet softening the rugged outlines and bringing out the points of the picture at the back with a clearness that is wonderful. This gauze is one of the most important features in tableaux, and should no sooner be disregarded than the arrangement of the stage. Of course my readers understand that I am dealing only with such an entertainment as can be given in either || city drawing-room or the spaeiouß rooms of a country mansion. Verß few people, no matter how mucß they may enjoy theatricals anfl tableaux, can afford to set apart I room or hall for such purposes, coJ sequently preparations must be man whenever any such festivities arl contemplated. 3