Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Actress Laurette Taylor opened in a play of her own writing. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly, Mrs. Walter Belknap James gave box parties. Governor Green inaugurated a flower show at the Casino. Mr. & Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte arrived to visit her sister, Mrs. Lorillard Spencer. Mrs. Amos Tuck French dropped in on her sister, Mrs. Louis L. Lorillard. Du Ponts, Ripleys, Lippincotts arrived aboard their yachts; the Edris, Elfreda, Fox, Orthea, Kikoko, Oceanic all dropped anchor on a single day. Newport was enjoying the height of its Social Season. And last week...
...indication of what the winter of 1935-36 will hold for cinemaddicts, China Seas, a first rate melodrama, lively, funny, and convincing, is highly reassuring. Its popularity at its premiere last week seemed to presage box-office records and a banner year, as usual, for the most ingratiating member of its cast, Jean Harlow...
...Bello house at Bel Air many of the rooms are white, as are Jean Harlow's bathing suits and most of the fantastic clothes designed for her by MGM's Costumer Adrian, who is well aware of the fact that fine feathers make fine fans at the box office. When not working, Jean Harlow dresses like a majority of Hollywood actresses, in slacks and blouse. In place of the Bello limousine, she now arrives at the studio for work in a Cadillac V 12, tastefully hung with Hollywood Fire Department signs...
...been out more than 27 hours when Federal District Judge Frederick H. Bryant returned from dinner at 8 p. m., took his place on the bench. Just before 9 o'clock the jurors-eight farmers, a school superintendent, a storekeeper, a baker and a guide-shuffled into the box...
...poor man's grub." When indignant citizens stormed Little Rock demanding a special session of the Legislature to repeal Arkansas' new 2% sales tax, Governor Junius Marion Futrell fled to Hot Springs, hopped into a steam bath, cried: "It's cooler in this box than it was at the Capitol...