Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exceptions, however, have almost invariably excited the public to more than ordinary demands at the box-office. In the early thirties "Of Thee I Sing," a brilliant political satire, more recently "Oklahoma!" and most immediately, the Irish fantasy "Finian's Rainbow" have found new and successful ways of putting words and music together on a stage. Other producers, however, instead of following the general example of trying something new, follow the specific example of the existing new hit. Consequently "Oklahoma!" was followed by a morass of Americana with fancy ballets, and no further progress. Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote their show...
Beginning this week, ticket-seekers may place their orders, accompanied by the full purchase price, at the Agency's Phillips Brooks House office at any time during the day, Monday through Friday. Receipts, which are exchanged at the theater box office for tickets, may be picked up by the applicant during the Agency's regular office hours, 1:30 to 3 o'clock, Monday through Friday...
...stressed the fact that, while the PBH-sponsored service usually can obtain better seats than are available at the box office, his organization cannot be expected to procure tickets for performances that have alrealy been sold out. As an added service, a daily notice of soldout performances will be posted on the door to the PBH office...
...current hullaballoo precipitated by attempts of assorted self-appointed guardians of public morals to cut parts of "Duel in the Sun" and "The Outlaw" raises some questions about the entire question of film censorship. If box office receipts are a good criterion, the public rushes to see any movie given the thumbs-down treatment by the women's downtown sewing club. The numerous amateur and state boards of review create delightful confusion, all the while playing into the hands of the film press agent...
...crawled back into the censorship field and take pot shots at anything coming out of Hollywood in a two piece bathing suit. Significantly, the old adage about the cure being worse than the disease applies here. Witness "Duel in the Sun." Selnick's horse opera attained a thirty percent box office edge over other films once criticism had been levelled at it. Had "Duel's" standards of decency been left to the Johnson Office, and its artistic merits to the gentle handling of the critics, almost assuredly no issue would have been raised and certainly no one's morals corrupted...