Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Partial list of props used up at each performance of Hellzapoppin: a dozen bananas, a dozen eggs, three dozen balloons, three dozen carnations, five pounds of beans, 150 pounds of ice. three window panes, one box of candy, one straw...
Also Showing Just Around the Corner (Twentieth Century-Fox). Shirley Temple. Bill Robinson, Franklin Pangborn and Charles Farrell in a gentle little comedy designed to explain the facts of the Depression to the youngest generation and to prove that for the cinema's No. i child actress, box-office oblivion is still far down the road...
Popularity of a movie star can be measured by box-office value, fan mail, exhibitors' polls, salary. Owners of theatres in small villages and small cities, where westerns are most favored and where Hollywood's most touted stars often play to empty seats, call Autry the industry's "mortgage lifter." His fan mail averages 4,000 letters a week, more than Clark Gable's or Shirley Temple's. In exhibitor polls of western stars he stands at the top. Autry's pay, $12,500 per picture, is not what it might be, but this...
...Galveston, Texas, G. Martini, assistant manager of a cinema theatre, was on his way to deposit the day's box-office receipts of You Can't Take It With You. In the lobby of the bank a bandit held up Manager Martini, took it with...
...wote for Thalberg, I mean Thaltenberg. He'th a good man. I always wote for the Wepublicanth. They alwayth good men." She was given an already marked ballot for safety, however, to guide her. In the polls she took the unmarked ballot dropped the marked one in the box without looking at it, and started out. After a lot of bickering things were straightened out. When asked how she voted on Plan E, she said "If he wath a Wepublican I woted...