Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Box" was originally dashed off in all seriousness by Harold MacGrath, who never wrote a funny thing in his life. Director Reisner has added certain obvious touches of humor, and Syd Chaplin's latest crop of gags has complete the remodelling. Why they over bothered about MacGrath's story in the first place one can scarcely say. It would have been much better to start clean; so to speak...
Metropolitan--"The Man on the Box", with Syd Chaplin...
...dramas, has suddenly turned serious and to ill-effect. He has produced a drama in which the modern craze for psychology and complexes is the inspiration. It is a strange hybrid and smacks of Hollywood. Joseph Schildkraut is the star. His personality and appeal, so valuable in the legitimate box office, do not screen particularly impressively...
Carmela Ponselle (of Meriden, Conn.) made her début in Aida, while her sister Rosa sat applauding in a box. For the first time since the De Reszké brothers, two members of one family are Metropolitan stars...
Coach Shevlin of the boxing team has reported that in addition to 45 veterans who are back this year, 65 new men have reported from the class of 1929 to box daily...