The Electrician
THE chief electrician has his centre of action beneath the boards of the stage, or in the portal, and plays on a kind of organ composed of lights; every one of these switch-boards, levers, or buttons releases some mysterious source of illumination, white, yellow, orange, red, blue, moon-yellow. Here you have the footlights and the overhead lights, the upper “Two,” “Three,” and “Four” funnels in the wings, or on slides, further sources of light in the portal, lamps in the gallery, portable thousand-candle-power lamps, corner lights, bulb-reflectors, free contact funnels, tubes, searchlights, batteries, pocket-lamps, projection apparatus, the cloud film, transparents, and Heaven knows what else.
It does not seem so very remarkable to the
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