Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fled the country a formal Chicago opera season was about to begin. Prices were cut in half so that orchestra seats cost $3 instead of $6. Big singers were engaged, but at salaries adjusted to fit a careful budget. Chicago's socialites never liked the high-railed boxes lined up in cinema-house fashion at the back of the house. But in ten new boxes built in an old-fashioned semicircle downstairs, those who had the desire and the price could see and be seen at this week's opening. It was among the goldfish and the bull...
...since there are not sufficient Mae Wests etc. to go around there must be a vast mass (or mess if you prefer) of plain movies. They tell a simple story: they point a simple moral; in short they provide an evening of passive satisfaction, of delicious mental abnegation. The box office receipts on these movies provide a vivid guide to the producer as to just what will satisfy the public at any given moment. What one finds in these productions gives an extraordinarily interesting and, I think, significant indication of what the public is thinking, for movies do not only...
...seats. Bookings are bigger than the New York managers expected. Lily Pons had to turn down 40 dates. Lawrence Tibbett has 51; Kreisler and Rachmaninoff, 33 each; Yehudi Menuhin, 28 (all his parents will let him play); Heifetz, 26, Zimbalist, Harold Bauer and Gabrilowitsch, expert musicians whose box-office power has never been sensational, have in the neighborhood of 30. Nathan Milstein has 33; Nelson Eddy, 37; Rose Bampton, 40. Cancellations were last year's bugaboo. A local manager would engage an artist and then be unable to sell enough seats to meet the fee. So far this season...
...white-haired Sara Delano Roosevelt, 78, mother of the President. In the Ritz-Carlton's Oval Room after dinner she listened to an orchestra playing gypsy music, oldtime Viennese waltzes. While younger guests danced in the main ballroom, amused themselves in cafe & casino, Mrs. Roosevelt occupied a box with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, conversed confidentially with her. Late in the evening the traditional grand march formed in the Palm Court. Wearing her favorite color, black, and escorted by bespectacled Major General Dennis Edward Nolan, Mrs. Roosevelt led the marchers in stately procession around the ballroom while some 1,000 guests...
...thing that caught the attention of Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. at the Refrigeration Show in Manhattan in 1926 was an automatic ice box which had no moving parts, made no noise and worked by means of a little gas flame and a solution of ammonia and water. Solemn Mr. Sloan had a long talk with the tall, red-cheeked man who was standing beside this new refrigerator. Mr. Sloan liked the refrigerator but not its price. Six years later Mr. Sloan's Frigidaire Corp. was also making a refrigerator which chilled when heat was applied...