HOW A PLAY IS PRODUCED
during the interval a Roman soldier carrying a bench on his head, or a French garçon screwing a loose bracket tight. The playing children in the crowd are usually the offspring of the theatrical folk.
If the piece is an elaborately mounted play, requiring a very large mob of people, then every one in the theatre is pressed into service: dressers, scene-shifters, property men, upholsterers, stage-managers, electricians and seamstresses; indeed, it is a wonder that the whole theatrical administration itself does not come on to the stage.
For making a noise one gets paid something extra.
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