Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People were driving down Broadway in claret-colored broughams, ladies wore tiaras and insisted on heavy white gloves when in Box No. 8, the fourth from the stage on the right, Lizzie P. Bliss began entertaining on Monday nights at the Opera. Lizzie Bliss was a gracious hostess. In Washington she entertained for her father when President McKinley persuaded him to leave his wholesale dry-goods business long enough to serve a term as Secretary of the Interior. Cornelius Newton Bliss Jr. was part owner of the Diamond Horseshoe Box but New York has known him more for his charitable...
...Metropolitan's finances are run this way: The holders of the 35 boxes own the proud, antiquated house. They are paid nominally $67,000 a year rent by the producing company. In turn, taxes and insurance amount to approximately $4,500 annually for each box, a rate of about $7 on each chair for each & every performance...
...performances pay for themselves. He even set aside 51,000,000 surplus. But that is exhausted now, although last year salaries were cut and the current season shortened from 24 to 16 weeks. A guarantee of $150,000 privately subscribed last spring has been eaten into badly. With box office receipts at their present low it was figured that even a season shortened to twelve weeks would require an extra $300,000 to see it through...
...began with the sixty-five cents. The box office, it seems, held no allurements. And then there was the foyer, and with it, all relative to the sixty-five cents, was that appealing influence of Oxford on a South End accent gently intoning that discouraged something about a "Bettah seelekshun." Those fifteen pairs of trodden toes reacted in the usual incoherent manner. The patron saint of sleeping dogs keeps watch over the soles of metropolitan theatre-goers...
...student council is unwilling to set up a ballot box in the Union and appoint some one to watch it, the freshmen will be glad to undertake the election on their own. At least the council should be able to discover more useful pursuits than that of playing nursemaid to the poor little unobtrusive freshmen. William F. Read...