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"I sometimes think it that the personal art is at an end and that henceforth we shall have only the arts, capable no doubt of immense development in their way indeed they've already reached it of the stage-carpenter and the costumer. In London the drama is already smothered in scenery; the interpretation scrambles off as it can.
"He should not be difficult to replace," said Harlequin. "True, if we were in a civilized land. But where among the rustics of Brittany are we to find a fellow of even his poor parts?" M. Binet turned to Andre-Louis. "He was our property-man, our machinist, our stage-carpenter, our man of affairs, and occasionally he acted."
Even Meyerbeer taught Wagner something more than the use of certain instruments, the bass-clarinet, for instance. The old operatic speculator indubitably was responsible for Wagner's grand demands upon the scene-painter and the stage-carpenter. His pompous spectacles fired the younger man not only with "Rienzi."
These two pairs of boots, which were placed, according to the Persian's papers, just between the set piece and the scene from the ROI DE LAHORE, on the spot where Joseph Buquet was found hanging, were never discovered. They must have been taken by some stage-carpenter or "door-shutter." It was the first time that I entered the house on the lake.
I believe if the stage-carpenter was going to stick a screw in a flat, they would call a chorus-rehearsal to watch him do it . . . Jill, you must get out of it. It's no life for you. The work . . ." "I like the work." "While it's new, perhaps, but . . ." Jill interrupted him passionately. "Oh, can't you understand!" she cried. "I want the work. I need it.
He was the son of a stage-carpenter, and had himself been a young carpenter who had led an irregular life, and been guilty of dishonesty. He behaved at first with much coolness and indifference, jeering at the magistrates. Francis was tried in the month of June for high treason, and sentenced to death, when his bluster ceased, and he fell back in a fainting fit in the arms of the turnkey.
Never, in the entr'actes, have I detected, on their lips, a criticism or a comment. Dorriforth. Oh, they say "splendid" distinctly! But a question or two reveals that their reference is vague: they don't themselves know whether they mean the art of the actor or that of the stage-carpenter. Auberon. Isn't that confusion a high result of taste? Isn't it what's called a feeling for the ensemble?
At that time Aleck Fifield, a Yankee jack-of-all-trades, who had been by turns a school-teacher, sailor, mechanic, boat-builder, and several other things as well, found himself employed as stage-carpenter in a Boston theatre.
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