Stage conveniences

Usage examples of props.

Joey ribaldry or toby pathos, the horse laugh or the weary smile, joey cunning or toby helplessness, pure pantomime or a pista full of props, joey knockabout or toby melancholy.

The artistes, the pista curbing, the band, whatever rigs and props do not require elaborate handling.

Clover Lee danced to where Ramrod's few props were stacked by the center pole, and the colonel, emulating the Quakemaker's painstakingness, frowned studiously and pretended to check over his weapon, from muzzle to percussion cap.

Although they had to work before the public two times a day, and in their spare time practiced to improve their old tricks, and experimented with new ones, and instructed the young apprentices, and saw to the upkeep of their props and animals, they were unburdened of most of the "housekeeping" drudgery that had formerly been their responsibility.

Edge watched enviously but closely, making mental notes, as the equestrian director, ever cool and suave, managed all that teeming cast of characters and animals, plus props and rigging and the roustabouts (every one deft and unobtrusive, wearing black coveralls) who carried and rolled and hauled the varied equipment in and out of the pista.

Meanwhile, the crew and artistes completed what work they had to do, saw to their animals, laid out props for the next day, then washed themselves and dressed in their best civilian clothes.

And when we are getting those wheel people, mind you, with their vasty props to handle.

So he whistled in the Hanswurst, the Kesperle and the Emeraldina to do their bouncy sky-pole turn as a fill-in until the Slovaks could get the Wheelers' props out and the smoke could clear.

The artistes had all scattered to unload their props, rigs, animals, whatever, from where they had been stowed during the river voyage.

While the roustabouts removed the props, Edge said admiringly to her, "Florian spoke truly.

So did even the black-overalled roustabouts, who customarily waited only stolidly for their cues to move props or cages or rigging.

Into the kitchen specifically so he could make certain they had all the props he needed?

To set up all the props, he would have had to carry stuff in and out of the buildings, yet no one appeared to see anything.

She saw that there were walls, props, really, some fastened together with hinges, others with brackets, not amateurish like the ones she'd made.

I build props just like you do only I'm better because I've done it more.