scene shifter

Junior members of the chorus ranked rather lower than apprentice scene shifters in the opera.

At the age of sixteen he had joined a traveling theater company as a handy-man, scene shifter and apprentice actor.

Scene Shifter was later converted to an 18" Howitzer gun in November 1943.

McCarthy lacked the funds to pay for school, so he financed his education by working as a scene shifter and painter in theaters in Providence.

Broun joked that his tombstone would read, "killed by getting in the way of some scene shifters at a Marx Brothers show."

Hwel strode off through the backstage melee in pursuit of a pair of importunate scene shifters.

The walls of Professor Babbit's study were rippling and swaying- He realized it was only the scene shifters.

With that was the chaos of costumers and seamstresses, scene shifters and properties overseers, repairmen and builders.

Sherwin began his career in the theatre and worked as a junior set designer, scenic artist, scene shifter, stage manager and lighting designer.

"The Scene Shifter" (1959)

During the Civil War, he came to Washington, D.C. and began working as a carpenter and scene shifter at Ford's Theatre.

Scene Shifter re-used a railway truck which had carried a BL 14 inch Railway Gun in the First World War.

In the 1989 version with Robert Englund, the chief scene shifter, Joseph Buquet, is found skinned alive and hanging in La Carlotta's closet.

The northern line supplied the 14" guns "Winnie" and "Pooh" and was also laid with two curved firing spurs for the 13.5" rail mounted guns Gladiator, Scene Shifter and Piece Maker.

Hence the breech of the left gun, which became known as "Scene Shifter", opened to the left which was unusual for a British army gun, while that of the right gun, "Boche Buster", opened to the right.

John Sullivan was working as a scene shifter at the BBC when he pestered producer Dennis Main Wilson to have a look at a script he'd written as a reaction to what he saw as the shortcomings of contemporary sitcoms.

The two guns were operated by 471 Siege Battery from May 1918, and were known as "HM Gun Boche Buster", operating near Arras with First Army, and "HM Gun Scene Shifter", operating near Bethune with Fifth Army.