Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last name caused reporters to query anxiously, scribble hastily. "Not the Grace Moore who sang in Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, in Hitchy-Koo, in Up in the Clouds?" It was that same pretty girl, native of Jellicoe, Tenn., one-time music student at the Wilson-Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried...
...most significant and hopeful portent resultant from Mr. Leiber's sojourn in the hinterlands of Castle Square, however, has been the reception accorded to his six plays. The box office has reported a steady gain,-a detail of some interest even in Shakespearian circles,-the audiences have been liberal with intelligent and audible approval, and the paying guests are nothing if not heterogeneous. Stiff shirts are more to be seen a social events such as the gold digging activities of a blond girl, and an air of student poverty permeates the atmosphere. From all appearances Shakespeare seems still...
...local guild hall is remarkable; it includes such diversions as "Stark Love", supposedly as near unpremeditated art as a camera man can approach, Janning's "The Last Laugh", and other foreign and native pictures which are made with at least one eye on an intelligent public and off the box office...
...tabulated statistics of a baseball game, commonly known as the "box score" are from seven to fourteen columns of figures (depending on the detail with which the game is reported). The last column on the right is headed "E," which stands for "error." Here are recorded the players' single "mechanical mistakes"?the dropped fly, the fumbled grounder, the ball that should have been fielded and was not. The story of a baseball game is told largely in terms of hits by the attacking side and errors by the defense...
Sidewalks of New York. The mysterious Eddie Dowling to whom Graham McNamee referred, irrelevantly, in his broadcasting to 50,- 000,000 people from the ringside of the Tunney-Dempsey fight and to whom the same Mr. McNamee referred equally irrelevantly through the press box microphone at the first World's Series baseball game, is now revealed. All Broadway and showbusiness knew him anyway as actor and producer of Sally, Irene, and Mary and Honeymoon Lane. To the public at large he is just another theatrical producer, fortunate in his word-of-mouth advertising. His show is much like...