scene-painter

Holmes quipped, [t] he scene-painter, as is often now the case, had shown more talents than the scene-writer

Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel 2005

Thrum the great composer satisfactorily arranged; and the new opera underlined in immense capitals in the bills, and put in rehearsal with immense expenditure on the part of the scene-painter and costumier.

Mens Wives 2006

Not that he entertained the slightest idea of wronging Mr Lupex — a man who was a scene-painter, and knew the world.

The Small House at Allington 2004

He was supposed to be the clown, but he was really almost everything else, the author (so far as there was an author), the prompter, the scene-painter, the scene-shifter, and, above all, the orchestra.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

The scene-painter appeared to be puzzled by the vehement energy of the language addressed to him.

The Haunted Hotel 2003

He was supposed to be the clown, but he was really almost everything else, the author (so far as there was an author), the prompter, the scene-painter, the scene-shifter, and, above all, the orchestra.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

He was supposed to be the clown, but he was really almost everything else, the author (so far as there was an author), the prompter, the scene-painter, the scene-shifter, and, above all, the orchestra.

The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

No second-rate imitator can write in that way; no coarse scene-painter can charm us with an allusion so delicate and perfect.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

But when the dramatist has completed his play, he does not deliver it directly to the public; he delivers it only indirectly, through the medial interpretation of many other artists, -- the actor, the stage-director, the scene-painter, and still others of whom the public seldom hears.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

The dramatist, the actors main and minor, the stage-manager, the scene-painter, the costumer, the leader of the orchestra, must all contribute their separate talents to the production of a single work of art.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton