Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, small boys threw sticks at Paul Goldstein and Murray Liebowitz who were rowing on a lake in Central Park. Annoyed, Murray Liebowitz and Paul Goldstein went ashore, chased the small boys, found that their sticks were dynamite, of which they had stolen a large box...
...brought camp stools, rolls, coffee, to wait as comfortably as possible to buy their seats for the opening of London's opera and social season. At 7 p. m. those fortunate enough to have gained admission were gawking excitedly at the entrance of three princesses into the Royal Box-Princess Mary and her cousins Princess Helena Victoria and Princess Marie Louise.* Conductor Bruno Walter arose and swept together the first vigorous strains of the Meistersinger overture. Then were displayed the tight-toned "Walther" of Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal; the homely, bourgeois "Sachs" of Baritone Friedrich Schoor; the heavy, smoothly sung...
...disc on the M. I. T. instrument was keyed to a three-octave board, reproduced deep pipe organ notes. Unlike Leon Sergeievitch Theremin's "ether music" box (TIME, Sept. 30), Hardy & Brown's development does not slide from one note to another, slurring the intervening ones...
...play which has had ample time to come to the attention of the theatrical world has never been produced in this country, such neglect must be due to one of two reasons; either it is a good play but not considered as having sufficient box-office attraction, or it just isn't worth producing. Plays of the former class, plays which are good but do not have that "it" which is essential to a Broadway appearance, constitute the logical field of choice for the Dramatic Club. But in default of such, a "Liliom" would not be amiss...
...avoiding musical comedy or the re-hashing of box-office successes, the Dramatic Club escapes the stigma of "amateur theatrical" a term which so effectively damps with faint praise many similar groups throughout the country. And with the experimental production of plays which have been brushed aside by the big business element of the modern Theatre, the Dramatic Club can, as it has in the past, render invaluable service to the cause of American Drama. But "policy for policy's sake" is a motto which has never been in keeping with high standards...