AtD - Chapter 27 - Section 2 (337-343): Hook deployment

[Monte Davis]

In American vaudeville, the stage manager or impresario was said to use a
long staff with a crook at the end -- the "hook" -- to remove performers
unwilling to leave the stage, before the audience could deploy fruit, shoes
and rocks to do so.

http://thumbnails.illustrationsource.com/huge.102.514386.JPG

http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii527/waywaw/vaudevillehook_zps7dda125c.gif


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Michel <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:

> '[Con McVeety] ... lurking backstage, waiting for the fateful Hook
> deployment )´ p. 342
>
> What does 'Hook' refer to? Makes no sense to, right now, Pynchonwiki has
> nothing yet on it...
>
> Michel.
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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