Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brrr" goes the box. Picture Editor...
...members present knew what he was driving at. Just in case someone might have forgotten, Variety's widely-read radio section carried a full-page, $400 advertisement, in big bold type: ''Salutations! National Association of Broadcasters . . . from the CHAMPION of the box office, MAE WEST. . . . Remember me, boys...
Until shortly before its release on the eve of Lincoln's Birthday, Of Human Hearts had been called Benefits Forgot, a title lifted from Shakespeare's wintry hyperbole on man's ingratitude.* But even Shakespearean titles sometimes lack the necessary box-office smash to put across a photoplay that has no top-ranking box-office names. Late last month MGM ran a radio contest for a new title, paid a $5,000 prize to 17-year-old Roy Harris of Greenville, S. C. The investment produced wide publicity and a title near enough Of Human Bondage (TIME...
Checkers (Twentieth Century-Fox). Ever since brattish Jane Withers muscled in on dimpled Shirley Temple's territory in Bright Eyes three years ago hollering for a gat, she has continued to rise in the affections of the U. S. public. She now stands sixth in box-office popularity. Plumpish, 11-year-old Jane, mixed up with a race-track crowd, repairs a shaky romance, helps nurse an injured race horse back to health, paces him to a neck-and-neck Derby finish...
...brilliant sketch of Jimmy Durante. nursing a hangover and memories of his youth at a rehearsal, talking himself from gloom to good humor until he launches on a flight of Broadway poetry: "The stage may be the pickle works to some people, but it's a big box of candy to me. Look at that blonde. ... I should be paying the boss for the privilege of working here...