Word: stagehand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Maurrant, belligerently righteous stagehand, appears. He is the type that lives with his lower teeth bared. Filippo Fiorentino, music teacher, appears, bearing ice cream cones for everybody. Mrs. Hildebrand and tots appear in time to be caught by a social service worker as they come from the movies: they have been living on charity since Mr. Hildebrand ran off with another woman. More talk of the heat. The crowd disperses. It is quiet except for the rumble of the subway, the bell of a fire engine, the bark of a dog. Mrs. Maurrant's daughter Rose appears with...
...Next morning stagehand Frank Maurrant leaves for Stamford, a show is trying out there. Mrs. Maurrant tells Sankey, her lover. He goes upstairs. The curtains are drawn. Sammy Kaplan sees Sankey go upstairs, sees the shade lowered...
...brief, "The Ghost Train" is a sad, sad, business, a mystery show in which every customary spooky manifestation is trotted on, from the waving of mysterious crimson lamps outside the windows to the usual unexplained noises made by a stagehand hitting a cracker box with a bungstarter in the hope of representing, we suppose, a spectral game of craps...
...Farnol. He takes the facts of life for granted and proceeds from that basis to write of the things which lead away from life. Only think what a book Carl Van Vechten or Floyd Dell might have written if either one of them had been, like Jeffery Farnol, a stagehand and a scene painter on Broadway for two years-or perhaps it would have cured them. At any rate, let us thank Heaven for the Jeffery Farnols, the Oppenheims, the Buchans, the McCutcheons...