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Updated: May 12, 2025
But I hastened to express my sympathy for his predicament. Fate had been kind to Dick Searles. In college he had written a play or two that demonstrated his talent, and after a rigid apprenticeship as scene-shifter and assistant producer he had made a killing with "Let George Do It," a farce that earned enough to put him at ease and make possible an upward step into straight comedy.
But if you will remain here a moment, marm, I'll run up on the stage and see if I can see 'im. The mention made by the scene-shifter of the approaching removal of Dick's basket frightened her, and she remembered that she had scarcely spoken to him since last night.
A scene-shifter going by said that he had seen Mr. Lennox leave the theatre some twenty minutes ago. 'I suppose he will come back for me, Kate said; 'or perhaps I'd better go on? Are you coming my way? Beaumont and Dolly said they were and proposed that they should pop into a pub before closing time.
In spite, moreover, of my knowing every plank and pulley, and scene-shifter and carpenter behind those scenes, here was I crying at this Scotch melodrama, feeling my heart puff out my chest for "Rob Roy," though Mr Ward is, alas! my acquaintance, and I know when he leaves the stage he goes and laughs and takes snuff in the green room.
The scene-shifter came softly "as the small rain upon the tender herb," but with an orchestra of his own. Years of observation have shown that the weather does control the habits of some birds birds of distinct and regular methods of life. Two such are common the nutmeg pigeon and the metallic starling.
I was in the manager's office, when Mercier, the acting-manager, suddenly came darting in. He seemed half mad and told me that the body of a scene-shifter had been found hanging in the third cellar under the stage, between a farm-house and a scene from the Roi de Lahore. I shouted: "'Come and cut him down!
Your kind indulgence is therefore requested for Miss D'Arcy, who has, on the shortest notice, consented to play the part of Serpolette. 'Did yer ever 'ear of anyone spraining an ankle on purpose? asked a scene-shifter. 'Hush! said the gas-man, 'he'll 'ear you. Amid murmurs of applause, Mr. Hayes backed into the wings. 'Well, was it all right? he asked Dick.
Mr Goble broke off to bellow at a scene-shifter who was depositing the wall of Mrs Stuyvesant van Dyke's Long Island residence too far down stage. "Not there, you fool! Higher up!" "You gave her her notice this evening," said Jill. "Well, what about it?" "We want you to withdraw it." "Who's 'we'?" "The other girls and myself."
Then ensued another pause, as though to give the invisible scene-shifter time to accomplish his work, followed by a shower of evening coolness, that seemed to sift through the trees like a soft and gentle rain.
The trees seemed sanctified, and I stood bare-headed among them and gave my silent praise for a delightsome experience. Expectancy and patience had been overpaid. "We are all going to the play or coming from it." In a few hours came "the season's difference." The scene-shifter worked with almost magical haste, with silence, and with supreme effect.
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