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Definition of Property man
1. Noun. Member of the stage crew in charge of properties.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Property Man
Literary usage of Property man
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"Quaint Picture of the property man and his Powers. The " property man " of a
theatre is a person who occupies a middle ground between the carpenter and the ..."
2. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"The property man and his Curious Duties.—His Singular Surroundings. ... The "
property man " of a theatre is a person -who occupies a middle ground between ..."
3. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"Young William Hodge immediately took a train for that town, and was made property
man of the company. His duties were onerous and quite varied, ..."
4. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"property man's assistants place four stools in a row across stage, with spaces
between ... property man then makes gesture to CHORUS and crosses to left. ..."
5. The Art of Playwriting: Being a Practical Treatise on the Elements of by Alfred Hennequin (1890)
"THE PROPERTY-MAN. The business of the property-man is to care for all the articles,
miscellaneous objects of all kinds, furniture, appendages, etc., ..."
6. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"property man's assistants place four stools in a row across stage until spaces
between ... property man then makes gesture to CHORUS and crosses to left. ..."
7. The Art of Playwriting: Being a Practical Treatise on the Elements of by Alfred Hennequin (1890)
"The business of the property-man is to care for all the articles, miscellaneous
objects of all kinds, furniture, appendages, etc., known as properties,9 ..."
8. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare by Charles Lamb, Israel Gollancz (1893)
"... it is nothing but counters, so Mai is spilt till it affects us no more than
its representative, the paint of the property-man in the theatre. ] XXV. (o. ..."
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