Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice the year before had Dr. Mudd talked briefly with John Wilkes Booth. But on the early morning of April 15, 1865 the actor-assassin, fresh from the Presidential box at Ford's Theatre, went to him in disguise under a false name, played his part so well that the country doctor never suspected his identity. Not until he heard the circumstances of Lincoln's death did Dr. Mudd grow suspicious, notify the authorities. For this service he was arrested as a conspirator. The whole land cried for quick, blind revenge. Booth might or might not have burned...
...excuse," handed the Pasha the key to the chest and swept off to bed. The Pasha wanted a cigaret but his lighter failed him. So he listened to a flute which was supposed to be a nightingale, then summoned a servant who helped him lug the suspicious box into the garden, there dig a grave...
...18th birthday last week Yehudi Menuhin gave his last Manhattan concert before he tours the world for a year, rests for another on his new California ranch. To spare harassed box-office employes, an advertisement was published six days before the concert to say that all seats in Carnegie Hall were sold. During the day Yehudi received 150 telegrams and a new projector for his cinema camera. In the evening he played Mozart with rare grace and delicacy. His Bach, without accompaniment, was exuberant and sure. A new sonata by Rumanian Georges Enesco had a true gypsy flair. Said Critic...
...last season at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Dec. 31). Into the Metropolitan that night went The March of Time's photoreporters (in top hats & tails) with the first sound-camera equipment ever permitted inside the old opera house during a performance. From a grandtier box wired for sound two of the reporters filmed the action and music on the stage, the swank audience. Others followed Gatti-Casazza backstage, saw what he saw through his private peephole to the stage, heard what he heard in his office as Aida progressed, caught his unposed facial expressions...
...Lionel railroad sells from $1 to $350. The more expensive models are complete with a red railroad station marked LIONELVILLE, a sponge rubber roadbed moulded to look like rock ballast, a thick steel tunnel through which speeds a locomotive, fire box aglow, pulling a string of Lionel Line coaches. Lionel Corp. still makes stem-wind locomotives, but President J. (for Joshua) Lionel Cowen, who gave his middle name to the company, was a pioneer in electrification. Onetime apprentice with Henner & Anderson, early makers of dry batteries, he spent his teens inventing a flashlight, finding new uses in surgical instruments...