Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play that was written 150 years ago, assuming a capable performance, is pretty much of a fixed quantity, so far as box-office success is concerned. Those whose tastes incline to the classic will patronize it, and not quite succeed in filling all the seats,--everyone else will automatically stay away. This is unfortunate in the case of "The School for Scandal", for as sheer entertainment, all hobbledehoy about art and the higher drama aside, it is probably the best play now showing in Boston. If the theatregoing public would only view it with the same open-mindedness given...
...Chicago-A billowy lady whose arms were swathed in bandages of diamonds, whose bosom, ears and neck were involved with various gems, sat in a box to hear the Chicago Civic Opera open its season with Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. While it may have appeared that she was foolhardy to let herself be seen with so great a fortune glittering upon her person, a critic in the next box observed that she spent her time toying with an object which she took from her vanitv case. It was a police-whistle...
...First of all, I received a shock during the first few minutes after my arrival in Cambridge which came near upsetting all my calculations. Rushing up out of the 'pill box', all on fire with ambition, and the antennae of my mind sharpened by a whole summer's curiosity, alert to the point, of pain, I was on the point of dashing across the square and throwing myself into the conflict when--whiz!--a Ford shot around the corner and, hitting a poor pedestrian not five feet from me, dragged him out of sight...
...close of the first act J. Weston Allen of the Board of Trustees for the Jewell Repertory Fund, Inc., appeared before the curtain and described in a deep and sonorous monotone the achievements and aspirations of the Repertory Theatre. Then His Honor, the Governor, was introduced from one box, and His Honor, the Corporation Counsel of Boston, from the other, and the two eminent gentlemen rivalled each other in intoning pleasing and congratulatory nothings about the theater on behalf on the Commonwealth and of the City. And the graduation day picture was completed at the close of the second...
...four; then came the afternoon that would decide everything. The "Colonels" from Louisville stiffened their backbones and bashed out four runs in the first inning. It looked as if they had won. For an inning they were lazy; then the "Seals" knocked two of their pitchers out of the box to win the game 9-8, the series...