Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time being, contributors will get modest pay. But lucky Ludwig Bemelmans was allowed to name his own price for a parcel of text and sketches. Said Charlie: "He charged us two cases of champagne, six bottles of brandy, a jar of Coronas and a box of sleeping pills...
...Paul Sartre by Thornton Wilder; produced by New Stages, Inc.) is sponsored by the same experimental group that last season made a bandbox hit, and then a Broadway hit, of Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute. The new production is by no means so likely to triumph at the box office: it is very little more convincing than The Respectful Prostitute was, and it is a good deal less exciting and scandalous...
...surprised to find a totally different verdict from the box office. According to Motion Picture Herald, none of 1948's top-grossing films appeared on the "best" lists. Ignoring the critics, as usual, most moviegoers flocked to see The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, Cass Timberlane, Green Dolphin Street, Life with Father, Mother Wore Tights, Road to Rio and Unconquered...
Precisely at 4, the band in the Plaza Mexico broke into the traditional Andalusian Skies, and the winter bullfighting season was on. In his box halfway up the ring's shady side, an erect, piercing-eyed old man in a broad-brimmed black hat glared about him. The wind was too strong for good bullfighting, he groused; the sun too bright. In their brilliantly colored capotes de paseo (parade capes), the toreros marched into the ring. "No elegance!" the old man harrumphed...
...most of the smaller U.S. symphony orchestras, a big-name guest soloist is a fellow who brings in a lot of money at the box office-and takes most of it away with him as he leaves the stage door. And for the Louisville Philharmonic Orchestra's money, Hollywood-priced soloists, playing the same old "boxoffice concertos" didn't advance music much anyway. So, last January, Louisville said goodbye to all that-and started saying a big hello to composers, who could be had for less...