She was consequently rather lukewarm in regard to the Guild school proposition, but the little daughter of the stagehand pictured the school and her teacher in most enticing fashion.
"Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley"
Belle K. Maniates
The smaller, with sharp, cunning, beady, black eyes, the prime mover in the scheme that had just been outlined, was a clever and dangerous "box-worker,", known as the Rat; the other, a heavy, vicious-faced man, with eyes quite as beady and unpleasant as those of his companion, was Muggy Ladd, who made his living as a "stagehand" for those, such as the Rat, who were more gifted than himself.
"The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale"
Frank L. Packard
A grimy young stagehand made a minor change for me with a languid, not unkind contempt.
"Jane Journeys On"
Ruth Comfort Mitchell