Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time sail ahead of him, presumably on one of the C.P.R. ships, be dumped off in the north Pacific, and be awaiting the arrival of the President Cleveland? I am truly curious. I have sailed that stretch plenty of times, and never once have I seen a "post box" of any description. But of course we live and learn. . . . ALFRED C. AITKEN...
...pitching is hoodooed after he has won his first twelve games. Fortnight ago, after winning twelve in a row, he lost a game against the Cleveland Indians, which dropped the Yankees temporarily into second place. In his next appearance, the Chicago White Sox knocked him out of the box in the ninth. Last week, against the Boston Red Sox, Pitcher Gomez finally won his 13th game- the one which insured the Yankees first place on July...
...carried almost single-handed by hardworking, hard-worked 4-year-old Shirley Temple. Three months ago Fox discovered that she was excellent adult entertainment in the otherwise mediocre Stand Up And Cheer. Immediately Paramount borrowed her for Little Miss Marker. While this picture was proving a thumping box office success all over the country. Fox ground out Baby, Take a Bow. For the sweatshop pace which has pushed Shirley Temple through an average year's work in four months they had a good business-like reason: growing children shoot overnight into gangling youngsters...
...curtain-raiser. Seekers after the new and curious will have to travel to Cleveland or Philadelphia. In both cities Artur Rodzinski has contracted to conduct Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk, the Soviet success by Dmitri Shostakovich, in which the heroine is heckled into murder by her unhealthy bourgeois surroundings. Metropolitan box-holders who own the shabby old theatre below Times Square made additional news last week when they announced plans to mortgage the house for $600,000 in order to clean it up, modernize its equipment. Electrical engineers from New York's new Fire Prevention Bureau had found the ancient...
...year's schedules are, more than ever, topheavy with oldtime "classics." Not to be outclassed by MGM, Universal was last week planning to produce Dickens' unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood, with an ending supplied by some writer under Universal contract. Charles Dickens' face appeared in Universal's list of "Box Office Authors,' along with those of Edith Wharton (Strange Wives) and Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven). Frankenstein's monster wil again appear for Universal in The Bride of Frankenstein. Universal distributors last week were told that "the mere thought of the monster seeking a bride makes £ showman's fingers...