Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Designed to attract political writers, as well as potential authors of short stories, book reviews, poetry, and film and stage criticism, the first meeting will describe the exact needs of the staff...
...sepulcher the idea of a year round stock company. He procured Brattle Hall for his winter headquarters and began enticing New York actors and actresses away at non-astronomical wages with the bait, rare for the theatrical world, of steady work in one place. He figured that he could attract full houses without paid advertising by scaling ticket prices down, putting on a different play every week, and distributing large numbers of "guest" tickets in such places as the Coop and the H.P.C...
With the requirement of passports and visas newly abolished, the Haitian Government put down the largest welcome in the history of this Caribbean land, hoping to attract a lucrative flow of tourists from many foreign lands, primarily from conveniently nearby, pleasantly wealthy United States of America. The prospects were beautiful. Since the appearance in TIME [Nov. 4] of "Paradise 1946," a story describing the Utopian life Haiti affords its foreign visitors, there had come an unprecedented flood of letters to the Chamber of Commerce in Port-au-Prince and to the U.S. Embassy, from people wishing to come to Haiti...
...critics maintain that the failure to attract large audiences must be attributed to the poor choice of plays," asserted Mendy Weisgal '45, 1G, head of the Workshop's play-reading committee. "We hope that by giving the students a chance to voice their preferences in advance, we will be able to find a play with sufficient drawing power to be a financial as well as artistic success," he added...
These policies, plus big-name bands, attract about 2,500 patrons a night to each of Karzas' ballrooms (at $1 on week nights, $1.25 on Saturdays and Sundays). He grosses about $1,000,000 a year (estimated net: at least...