Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Musician of the Year was Arturo Toscanini. In three of the world's great musical capitals- Manhattan, Pans and Salzburg-Conductor Toscanini was the sensation of the season, establishing beyond all dispute his title as music's greatest box-office attraction...
...Box 42 at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House resembled a miniature sitting-room one afternoon last week. The antechamber was shut off from the house by a glass partition. In it were flowers, a shaded lamp, a piano and a charming white-haired lady. Geraldine Farrar was making her debut as raconteuse for the Metropolitan broadcasts...
...Hauptmann did not know the money he was passing was ransom money. He "dipped into it" when he found a shoe box full of it left by Isidor Fisch, who owed Hauptmann $7,500 which he never repaid...
Since Depression no opera night has been so brilliant. Standees, in line for hours, found the old house with its face washed clean of grime, its lobbies sparkling with new chandeliers and trimmings. Box-office attendants were jubilant because the house was once more sold to the doors. Downstairs, subscribers were enjoying the new upholstered chairs, and a new $250,000 lighting system was at work backstage...
Society's pageant did not properly start until the intermission when opera glasses were brought out for the annual inspection of the Diamond Horseshoe. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt was there, in hair ribbon and diamond stomacher. Goelets, Blisses and Wilsons had their oldtime boxes. In the Morgan box sat Mrs. Herbert Satterlee, Mr. Morgan's sister. With Mrs. Watts Sherman was her granddaughter, Eileen Gillespie, who almost became Mrs. John Jacob Astor III. Missing was old Mrs. Vanderbilt, Society's long-time peeress, and Otto Hermann Kahn, for years the Metropolitan's best friend. Both had died...