Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prizewinner Knaths, 54, was apprenticed to a baker at 19. He used discarded box linings for drawing paper, contrived hundreds of escapes from the steaming bakery into a world of his own making. As an art student, Knaths learned a new escape trick: Pablo Picasso and Swiss fantasist Paul Klee taught him how to tear down what he saw and rebuild it to suit himself...
...doubtful whether Strauss ever expected Ariadne to be a box-office hit. A small-scaled "chamber opera" without a chorus, it uses an orchestra of only 37 instruments, one of them an organ. A confused story-within-a-story and a stage-within-a-stage set mix Grecian mythology with Mozartian opera bouffe. The three leading roles, all sopranos, are among the most difficult to sing in all opera...
Movie attendance was indeed up to an all-time high (95,000,000 a week) and the excess profits tax was gone. But the payoff fact was that Hollywood was selling products made a few years ago at comparatively lower costs, at record-high box-office prices (some 37% higher than...
...could star her in four pictures a year; since each picture now takes about twice as much time, that same contract must be supported by two pictures or less. All of this means trouble when the present abnormal movie boom tapers off and admission prices are cut. The box-office take, which soared with rising ticket prices (see chart), can drop just as rapidly...
...does, all the things which add up to enormous profits now may make for losses. The high-priced movies Hollywood is making this year may not be shown for as long as two years from now. And by then, even Hollywood's optimists expect that the present box-office rush will be subsiding. In short, Hollywood may find itself peddling high-priced products in a lower-priced market. That thought alone was enough to take some of the shine off this year's pot of gold...