property-room

Unlike me, he specialized in work for the major film companies -- investigating property-room and backlot thefts, insurance claims against the studios, missing actors or actors 'relatives, things like that.

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

It so happened that a number of these scrolls had Been thrown aside after one of the grand spectacles at Astley's Amphitheatre, and remained amongst other lumber in the property-room, until the late destructive fire which occurred there.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 Various

As I sat behind them at the concert the other night, I was profoundly touched by the feelings of this kingship without mantle and crown from the property-room of the old world.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Furnish with the scourings of the property-room -- a great convenience for Sunday evening productions.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 Various

Capulets were not gleaming white and awful in the lamplight of the property-room; or, at all events, would be gleaming if any body were to hunt them up with a practicable lantern.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870 Various

He darted along this alley between a ramshackle fence and the brick wall of the property-room.

Vintage Murder Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1937

They locked the portrait in the property-room, and said good night conspiratorially.

Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935

This may be due to a gipsy strain in my ancestry -- one of my uncles travelled with a circus -- or it may be the Artistic Temperament, acquired from a grandfather who, before dying of a surfeit of paste in the property-room of the Bristol Coliseum, which he was visiting in the course of a professional tour, had an established reputation on the music-hall stage as one of Professor

The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories 1928

They opened the door of the property-room and glanced inside.

Just Patty 1911

Observing that the grave-digger in his too eager realism was damaging the thing -- the marks of his pick and spade are visible on the cranium -- Edwin Booth presently replaced it with a papier-maché counterfeit manufactured in the property-room of the theatre.

Ponkapog Papers. 1904