Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...various dead bodies and homicidal instruments, and this necessitated a purchase. But the carpentry skill of the property men enables the company to get around most of the many problems of this sort less expensively. To illustrate this point Mr. Trask indicated in the crowded prop room an ugly, box-like structure constructed of mattresses and a few sticks of wood which he said could be made to resemble nearly any couch or sofa called for merely by the skillful draping over it of a slip cover...
...Ticket Agency has been answering student requests for the local shows, and, through "contacts" with Boston theaters, can usually supply the required ducats. An ordinary afternoon in the Agency's headquarters saw a stream of recreation seekers clamoring for admission at box-office prices...
...only foreign film to squeeze into the top 60, barely made it (No. 56)-below Two Guys from Milwaukee but above Canyon Passage. Henry V ($700,000 with only ten engagements) was the first real dent, Variety noted, that Shakespeare ever made on the U.S. box office. The Seventh Veil ($2 million) was the "first foreign production to honestly break into the consciousness of the average U.S. filmgoer...
Credit for the imaginative experiment must be divided equally between Montgomery (who has been nagging his studio for years to let him try it) and wealthy, conservative MGM, which did all right for itself at the 1946 box office (see above) by just sticking to big, safe production techniques and big, safe stars...
...write of the wish that comes true ... a terrifying concept. I think my stories have some quality of the opening of a forbidden box, and that it is this, rather than violence, sex . . . that gives them the drive...