Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drinking with the boys" topped the list of blights on marital bliss. "Other women" ran a weak fifth, behind such minor vices as failure to bring home a box of candy, or a tendency to domineer. "Ashes on the rug" was a surprising last...
...audience. Up In Arms and Wonder Man were neither the best cinema nor the best Kaye. They mixed some old and new numbers by Sylvia with some old and older tricks by Goldwyn. But they had some wonderful, isolated Kaye routines (Bali Boogie, Lobby Song) and they were smash box office. Kaye's new picture, The Kid from Brooklyn, a remake of Harold Lloyd's The Milky Way, is due for release in mid-April...
...Supreme Court of the U.S. last week laid a bundle of dynamite. By a 7-to-1 decision, the court found that nine, major producing, distributing and exhibiting companies* had conspired to prevent Chicago's Jackson Park Theater, an independent neighborhood house, from showing films until their box office potential had greatly deteriorated...
Each team took advantage of the other's penalties and much of the scoring was done while several players were sitting in the punishment box. This was especially evident in the second period, when the Chasemen were penalized twice in four seconds and B.U. scored quickly to knot the count...
...America's frivolous "operatic sweetheart" and sang Mimi and Melisande in almost every major U.S. opera house. In 1937, when she returned to the U.S., concert and opera managers snubbed her. Last year Concert Manager Austin Wilder brought her to New York, discovered that he had the biggest box-office attraction in Town Hall's 25 years. After her first concert a critic wrote: "A Sinatra demonstration at the Paramount is a feeble thing indeed...