How desolate the playbills looked that had been so companionable but two or three hours before.
"Prose Fancies"
Richard Le Gallienne
The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills.
"The Turn of the Screw"
Henry James
He adjusted scenes, assisted carpenters, invented costumes, devised playbills, wrote out calls, and enforced, as well as exhibited in his own proper person, everything of which he urged the necessity on others.
"Life of Charles Dickens"
Frank Marzials