callboy

Imagine what one of those guys must have thought the first time they saw “Bulldog”, or whatever it was he called himself in his role as a dominant former Marine callboy, as a bleeping Whitehouse journalist!

Firedoglake » Somebody Had Their Wheaties… 2006

Today's word is; callboy, a person who tells actors when it is time to go on stage.

calmish Diary Entry calmish 2005

Anyway, what more can I say about callboy, except that it rhymes with ball-boy, which is a much better job because at least you have the chance of getting on the telly.

calmish Diary Entry calmish 2005

Gentle Alice, orphaned, deserted, lonely; it is not from any distrust as to her talents, her manners, or her figure, that she has been made to wait so long for the callboy.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

The overture smote like a dirge on her ear, and when the callboy came to announce that the moment of her entrance was at hand, it reminded her of nothing so much as the feeling of mourners when the sable mute appears at the door, as a signal to form the procession to the tomb.

Mary Anderson J. M. Farrar

So the next morning about 11 o'clock I saw the callboy and he called me for a double-header engine 182 for Plainview, Texas.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1918

Page 62 callboy could find me, and of course I did not sleep any that night for thinking about my new job.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1918

We should have been called at 10 a.m. next morning, but the callboy could not find us, so we were called for

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1918

He reached the lobby in time to hear a callboy paging him.

The Winning Clue James Hay 1908

I heard Ginger, the callboy, ahead of me and dodged behind some properties just in time.

In The Bishop's Carriage. 1903