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Friday’s Link-tacular
It seems like everyone is working on at least one, if not more, shows at the moment. I should have some cooler stuff to write about in a few weeks. Until then, enjoy another list of links!
You may be familiar with the Props Timeline I have listed over on the side of this website. Wikipedia [...]
Stage Sounds
Stage Sounds
by Harley Vincent
Photographs by George Newnes, Ltd.
(originally published in The Strand Magazine, 1904)
Suppose some reader of The Strand were to ask, “What is a wind-machine?” how many persons in an intelligent audience would be able correctly to answer the conundrum? Yet how often have they, in some thrilling drama at Drury Lane or one [...]
It’s Props Month at Stage Directions
This month’s issue of Stage Directions has a special section on props. One of the articles, “Prop Shop Confidential” by Lisa Mulcahy, is about maintaining a props stock. This is a good companion to my own post on which props to keep and which to trash; it features a lot more thoughts on how to [...]
Props in Movies, 1922
The Property Man
Who Is Qualified to Become One?
By Ray Chrysler, Matter of Properties, Metro Pictures Corporation, 1922.
Picture a curiosity shop and you can visualize clearly the property room of a large studio. In it, one will find everything from a suit of armor to a canary bird’s nest. From it, several well-furnished homes or hotels [...]
Medieval Theatre and Trade Guilds