Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago when Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera was feeling the first serious effects of Depression, Franz von Suppe's light opera Boccaccio was taken out and dusted (TIME, Jan. 12, 1931). Soprano Maria Jeritza put on tights and the box-office felt temporary relief. Opera companies the world over have been lightening their repertoires lately. The Metropolitan's experiment proved so successful that it turned again to von Suppe, presented last week his Donna Juanita...
...Viennese Jeritza. Donna Juanita should prosper briefly for the same reasons. The production is even faster, more up-to-date. The Metropolitan's conservative ballet appears barelegged. Jeritza is gorgeous in a black & gold court costume, magnificently casual as she steps up to the sacred prompter's box and uses it like a brass rail. Neatest tricks: a high dive by the big soprano, relaxed as any trained ballerina, straight into the arms of Tenor Marek Windheim and Baritone Louis D'Angelo; a shooting exhibition by Assistant Conductor Carlo Edwards who borrowed a shotgun from a neighboring...
...Owing largely to political conditions that make tenure of office by health officers uncertain, the number of American students in the School of Public Health continues small; but its contributions in other ways are large. The respirator, whereby a patient is confined in a box with carefully regulated conditions of temperature and atmospheric pressure, has proved of such medical value that one hundred and fifty are now in use in the United States and Canada, and they are being taken up abroad. It is, in fact, an example of how unexpected benefits may come from scientific studies. The instrument...
Sportsman William Henry Vander-"hilt, whose four-in-hand coach was used as a model for the current edition of Christmas seals of the National Tuberculosis Association (TIME, Dec. 7). complained because the artist placed the driver on the left side of the box instead of the right...
Scribner's increased its page size and altered its format to something generally resembling Forum. Feature titles blazoned on the orange cover seemed more provocative than usual: "Hoover Can Not Be Elected," by Elliott Thurston; "Mill Girls," by Sherwood Anderson; "A Bride in a Box...