Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moving. Perhaps it's the fault of the manuscript which with all its professed "realism" isn't quite convincing. After all it is not striking that young actors have trouble in getting started. It is bad that the theater has to be dominated by a star system which raises box office above art and it is reasonable to assume that wives who go abedding with their leading men may lose their husbands. This is all true and real but if it carries any particular message this corner did not get it. The play is capably constructed but if a drama...
...game, a ticket for one of the 81,000 seats in the Ohio State stadium was worth $20. The Ohio State band, often called best in the U. S., drilled patly on the field whence its exercises were inaudible to reporters in their glass-enclosed press box. Before the game, as has been its custom this season, Notre Dame chose a captain for the day to replace Joseph George Sullivan who was elected last autumn, died last spring...
Quite unclassifiable is Billy Rose's "Jumbo," which opens Saturday night and which Mr. Rose candidly confesses will probably run forever. And then there is always Columbus Circle, which presents some of the most impassioned and diversified soap box oratory west of Hyde Park. For Saturday matinee we recommend the pageant at the Palmer stadium, featuring the Harvard band...
...view was the "telephone of the future," not slated for general service until two years hence. It is a self-contained unit, eliminating the black box screwed on the wall. On top of a small metal housing, shaped like a truncated pyramid, is a fork carrying the transmitter. Inside the housing is the ringing mechanism, two musical gongs which may be rung emphatically with a metal clapper or softly with a wooden one at the subscriber's whim. Recessed into the housing is the dial, which operates almost noiselessly...
...four weeks box-office keepers at the San Francisco Opera House have been patiently explaining that there are no more seats available. For four weeks inside the house preparations have gone on at fever pitch. This week begins the most ambitious undertaking in San Francisco's opera history: the presentation of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, that mighty tetralogy which, 26 years in the making, includes the operas Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung...