Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . DINING-ROOM IN THE SULTANS PALACE. within half an hour of the beginning of the performance andfurnishes them with a verbal sketch of a comedy which hedesires them to improvise the same evening. Thus, for in-stance, some time ago he assembled the leading actors andspoke as follows: **I want you to represent the steward of a princely house-. 6l4 WITHIN ROVAL PALACES. hold, who is exceedingly excitable and entirely lacking inpresence of mind. His master must give him a sud
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . DINING-ROOM IN THE SULTANS PALACE. within half an hour of the beginning of the performance andfurnishes them with a verbal sketch of a comedy which hedesires them to improvise the same evening. Thus, for in-stance, some time ago he assembled the leading actors andspoke as follows: **I want you to represent the steward of a princely house-. 6l4 WITHIN ROVAL PALACES. hold, who is exceedingly excitable and entirely lacking inpresence of mind. His master must give him a sudden orderto prepare a banquet for a hundred guests. The poor manloses his head and issues the most confused and contradictoryinstructions. The result is that the servants ail stumble overone another, spilling the dishes, smashing the china, andcreating a general pandemonium. At this moment thePrince appears upon the scene with his guests, whereuponthe steward casts himself at his masters feet and implorespardon. The Sultans directions were carried out to his entire satis-faction, and the piece, although improvised, was a wonder-ful success. The incident which appeared to cause the most enjoymentto His Majesty, was when one of the servants in his confusionfired off a siphon of seltzer water in the stewards face. Thishad been specially ordered by Abdul Hamid. It should beadded, that almost every one of these improvised farces isdestined by the Commander of
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