Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain...
...fodder." Assisted by uncouth Dave Chasen, Mr. Cook finally removes his hack and horse from the stage. Messrs. Cook & Chasen have provided themselves with trainmen's caps. They pour coal into Magnolia's flank. She lights up, chuffs smoke through her nostrils, trembles from flashing fire box to cowcatcher, and finally roars metallically into the wings. Past master of absurdity and surprise, Joe Cook regularly employs three property men of his own to supplement his production's stage staff. He needs all of them in Hold Your Horses. He juggles a whopping hogshead which he catches...
...short of copy, Charlie became a hero overnight. He left his job, went to London to be lionized, photographed, interviewed, presented with a check for ?500. Charlie was a sensible lad and kept his shirt on through all the hullabaloo, but when he found himself in a theatre-box with Ida. winner of a newspaper beauty contest, he lost his head with his heart. Ida was out of the same social drawer as Charlie, but she had ambitions: she really believed she was well on the road to Hollywood. While she was still in the midst of her tinsel glory...
...mention of Professorial Dignity recalls an incident which occurred during the summer. It appears that M. Jean-Marie Chalifour, citizen of France and instructor in Harvard's French Department, awoke one sultry A.M. to find in his mail box a communication from the city of Cambridge. It was apparently the intent of some minion to inform M. Chalifour that he owed a $2.00 poll...
...happy combination of sentiment, metaphysical poetry and A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court, Berkeley Square has all the qualifications of a succes d'estime and most qualifications for success at the box office. Producer Jesse Lasky-one of the few oldtime cinemagnates who have kept up with the times-did a first-rate job which began with hiring Frank Lloyd, who made Cavalcade, to direct; borrowing Leslie Howard, who played the rôle in John Balderston's play, to act Peter Standish; using a new British ingénue, Heather Angel, for Helen Pettigrew...