Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raging under the shadow of the Red Army's continuing occupation of the country it had liberated. Seven of prewar Poland's 35 millions had died in World War II; life had become so cheap that the struggle for Poland could scarcely be confined to the ballot box...
...custom at the Turin Royal Theater to keep the electric lights burning in the house so that the audience could follow their scores and see to eat their box lunches. But for the first performance of La Bohème, young (28), bristle-haired Conductor Arturo Toscanini ordered the house lights turned out. Further, he instructed his Mimi (Soprano Cesira Ferrani) to stay in character once she started to succumb to consumption in Rodolfo's drafty garret in Act IV; there would be no rolling around in the creaky bed for encores...
This time the world's greatest conductor, of opera or anything else, put on a Bohème without costumes or scenery, and with no box lunches in the studio audience. He lined up his cast of soloists (mostly Met stars) before the mikes like an old-fashioned singing class, so that he could keep a sharp eye and a firm baton on them. Tenor Jan Peerce, in the first act's duet with Soprano Licia Albanese, closed on a lower E (as Puccini wrote it) instead of the flashier high C he likes to exit...
...Happened One Night was not one of the colossal box-office draws of all time. But it set a new standard for cinema comedy, and much of the credit rightfully went to Gable's witty, fast-paced performance. He has managed through the years to keep up the pace, if not always the wit; a full Gable catalogue would include several dozen pictures ranging in altitude from the high-flown, windy Gone, which was hardly his fault, to the lowdown, torrid Somewhere I'll Find You, brought out shortly after he left Hollywood in 1942 to join...
...soth time that Lunt & Fontanne have played together on Broadway. Since 1924 they have acted in everything from Dostoevsky to Noel Coward, from high drama to sheer drivel. They have long been the most famous stage couple in the world-and year in, year out, probably the best box office. On the road, even when it had dwindled into a weed-choked path, they have never slipped. A week before O Mistress Mine opened on Broadway, it had a prodigious advance sale...