Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from past modernist recitals. Three hundred and fifty standees broke the theatre's record, established on the closing night of The Great Waltz. As the formal conclusion of Manhattan's five-week Olympic Dance International, what was old stuff to Greenwich Village longhairs became a tiptop Broadway box-office attraction...
...recent poll of the Football Writers Association Harvard received the highest rating of any Eastern college in respect to treatment of the newshawks. The Crimson got an 87.2 vote of confidence for the working conditions of newspaper men. Special mention was made of the press box in the Stadium...
Since 1932 the Motion Picture Herald, Domesday Book of the cinema industry, has made annual surveys to find out which cinema stars make most money for the box office. Heading the list for the first two years was the late, leather-lunged Marie Dressler. In 1934 the late Will Rogers succeeded her. In 1935 pampered Cinemoppet Shirley Temple, then 6 years old, took first place. In 1936, for the first time, the Herald polled not only the U. S. but the box offices of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Again Shirley Temple topped the list. Last month the Herald...
...Artistic excellence and box-office success are not always the same thing, even to Hollywood. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures has a committee on exceptional photoplays that annually picks ten U. S. pictures for their artistic merit. Top choice for 1937 was creepy, melodramatic Night Must Fall. Others, in order: The Life of Emile Zola, Black Legion, Camille, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Good Earth, They Won't Forget, Captains Courageous, A Star Is Born, Stage Door...
Open market sugar is, however, only one bonbon in the box of world consumption, which totals 30,000,000 tons per year. This is because most sugar-producing nations consume their own output. The U. S., for example, exports no domestic sugar, but grows some 6% of the world total and eats 22%, hence has no quota under the International Sugar Pact. It does have production quotas of its own, however, to control its beet sugar producers in the West, its cane sugar production in Louisiana, Florida and island possessions...