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Updated: June 10, 2025
An occasional stage-hand hurried by in the distance bent on some errand, and from the back came the sound of hammering. The chorus was singing forte now, and the sound filled the uttermost corner, drowning the noise of the hammer. Kaya stood still for a moment, clinching her hands: "My God," she said, "I have tried the last and it has failed! The end of the week!" she laughed to herself bitterly.
This the stage-hand would have done, had he not had the misfortune to get into an altercation with a barkeeper which culminated in a fractured skull and an ambulance ride to the receiving hospital. To make the situation perfect for what followed, the theatre was closed for three days in order to make certain alterations demanded by the Fire Commissioners.
I am a stranger to you, so there is no reason why you should take my word, but fortunately I can give you solid proof. If there were any danger, I wouldn't be here. All that has happened is that the warmth of your reception of the play has set a piece of scenery alight. . . ." A crimson-faced stage-hand, carrying an axe in blackened hands, roared in Jill's ear. "Gerroutofit!"
For two days it had been snowing, great flakes so plume-like that they seemed almost artificial, making one think of the blizzards which originate high in theatre-flies under the sovereignty of a stage-hand who sweats at his task of controlling the elements.
The curtain down, with a gleeful audience in front and with the dogs back in the room over the stage, Wilton Davis descended to look for Michael, who, instead of cowering in some corner, stood between the legs of the stage-hand, quivering yet from his mishandling and threatening to fight as hard as ever if attacked. On his way, Davis encountered the song-and- dance couple.
The color of her eyes was open to speculation; when they had changed from gray to green, from green to hazel, and from hazel to purple, Amarilly gave up the enigma. The color of her complexion changed, too, in the varying tints of peaches. "I do b'lieve she ain't got no make-up on," declared Amarilly wonderingly. The little daughter of the stage-hand had not overappraised the diamond.
Ask any of the top-notch pros. Ask 'em whether they never got the bird when they were starting. Why, even now some of the biggest stars can't go to some towns because they always cop it there. Bless you, it " A stage-hand came up with a piece of paper in his hand. "Young feller in spectacles and a rum sort o' suit give me this for your 'Ighness." The Prince snatched it from his hand.
First time he was on a stage in his life, after being starved and thirsted for two days. Oh, I know, Mr. Manager." "If you kill the dog it'll cost you a dollar to the garbage man to get rid of the carcass," the manager took up. "I'll pay it gladly," Davis said, again lifting the iron bar. "I've got some come-back, ain't I?" "You animal guys make me sick," the stage-hand uttered.
The Lady Gwendolin unrolls the Scroll and reads: "'Traced in the Veins of the Petals Are the Lines I fain would speak And breathing low in the perfumed Leaves Is the Name " "Hold on," said the Artist. "That's a Cinch. Have a Stage-Hand come on with the Flowers. Lottie says, 'I know who sent these, and so on and so on, and his Nobs gets off.
"Three cheers for good old Shylock," called somebody, and they were given with a will. Then they sang to her. "Here's to you, Roberta Lewis, Here's to you, our warmest friend!" Then they sang to Barbara and to Kate Denise, and to both the Gobbos. "I say, ain't you folks goin' home till mornin'?" shouted a jovial stage-hand, thrusting his head out from the wings.
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