Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once a winter a piano with a specially constructed keyboard is rolled on to the stage in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, while in the lobby a box-office attendant drones: "Everything sold for this performance. All standing-room gone." When the hall is hushed, stubby Josef Hofmann ambles into view, his head cocked quizzically to one side, an appraising look in his keen brown eyes. Few notice the piano with its keys cut short to suit the short fingers...
...screen without sense of shock at such obsolete cinematic devices as subtitles and exaggerated pantomime. What may be the reaction of 10,000,000 cinemaddicts who have grown into the audience since the days when Chaplin pictures were everyday occurrences, is a problem to be answered by the box office. Judging by its reception in Manhattan last week, Modern Times is likely to find a satisfactory niche in the winter program of U. S. cinema entertainment. It is a gay, impudent and sentimental pantomimic comedy in which even the anachronisms are often as becoming as Charlie Chaplin's cane...
...provided in the Union today at lunch and dinner. A single sheet will be furnished for each course. So far the returns have been disappointing with only 1800 questionnaires distributed. All of those which were taken yesterday and not returned before leaving the Union can be dropped in a box at breakfast outside the entrance to the dining room...
...single sheet will be provided for each course and subdivisions will give opportunity for specific comments on the ability of the lecturer, the lecture material, the section men, assignments, etc. If possible, Freshmen are urged to fill out the sheets in the Union, dropping it in a box at the door when they leave the dining room...
Last week Boston & New England readers got a whole new section of their own. Local news is briefly reviewed in a six-column, half-page box, dressed up with ordinary and candid photographs, flanked by two longer stories. Other features: weather, radio, finance, amusement, political doings ("Up & Down Beacon Hill"). Space remains for what has always been a vexing Monitor problem: local advertising...