Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compared to the business that occupies him now? a business that involves 80 principal artists, a chorus of nearly 300, an orchestra of 120, 12 assistant conductors, a ballet of 80 and 700 miscellaneous stagehands, ticket takers, officeworkers, wire-pullers. Each season 4 millions is taken in by the box office. Each season Manager Gatti-Casazza goes to probe in Europe for new operas, new singers. It was about some of these that he read so sonorously to the pressmen while kindly Mr. William Guard, interpreter, translated his words, sentence by sentence...
...Box Office...
...Augusta, Me., one Thayer Wilshire, received his weekly pay, entered a drug store, consumed thirteen 10-cent ice creams, six bottles of soda, two ham sandwiches, two hot dogs, two chocolate bars, a box of potato chips and drank several glasses of water. Gourmand Wilshire then ran half a mile to show that he was physically...
...foyer are brass rails and stiff shirted attendants to keep the waiting people in place. There is no standing in line two or three blocks up a windy street far from the box-office. One waits for seats just as he waits for a train in the Grand Central Station...
...American premiere was staged by Morris Gest, who started his life in this country as a newsboy kin Harvard Square. The Century Theatre in New York was converted into a cathedral and the opening took place on January 15, 1924. During its 10-months run in New York the box office receipts totalled almost two and a half million dollars...