Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like the frightening scream from Miss de Havilland which rattles its sound track, an honest, accurate and dramatically powerful echo of certain ugly facts of modern life. It does what Hollywood has rarely done before: look harsh reality in the eye. Backed by enthusiastic reviews and smash box-office success in two big cities, The Snake Pit will be released next month throughout...
...box-office outlook for Anne of the Thousand Days yanks the ten-year-old Playwrights' Company out of a slump that had threatened to end a unique Broadway team. Last season, for the first time since it was formed by Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice and Robert E. Sherwood, the partners could not dig up a play among them; Broadway wondered loudly whether the old hands had lost their grip. Now the Playwrights plan to follow Anne with four more in the current season...
Harvard Club of Eastern New York, Albany, Edward S. Godfrey III '34, 235 Lenox ave,; Harvard Club of Fairmont, West Virginia, James O. Watson '00, Watson Building; Harvard Club of Houston, Nathaniel Ware '34, 323 Bankers Mortgage Building; Harvard Club of Jacksonville, Josiah D. Segal '21, P.O. Box 329; Harvard Club of Kansas City, Ralph W. Elis '26, 1001 Commerce Building...
...average, cinemogul regards film critics as either free pressagents or costly saboteurs. Even when a bad picture is a box-office hit, the moviemaker resents the critic who has called it bad. MGM, which specializes in movies that the public loves, is particularly touchy about critics who refuse to love its products.* Last week MGM's dislike of unfriendly reviewers had roused all of London's critics to battle...
...game theory" taught by these three men protects the student glovers from themselves and from one another. Apparently, Harvard's current program of pugilism is carrying on in the tradition of the championship boxing squads of before 1938, and, in addition, is establishing a "box--don't fight" tradition...