Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exchange of Wives. And here is where the screen has put its foot into a trap again. Marriage is a matter too complicated for the stunted treatment accorded to nearly every screen play. Yet films on marriage persist. They must have a box office value, but it is the impression of many people that pictures of gilded vice and of marriages that do not jell are chiefly responsible for the low esteem in which the Cinema is held by many sensible folk?so grotesque, so cheap, so shriekingly impossible are the Hollywood conceptions of these same sensible people in domestic...
...story is not taken from any of the tales in the Armenian's volume of short stories of the same title. As the cinema buys titles and pins them on new plots, so Mr. Arlen borrowed his own title for box-office purposes. His chief female is married to a bald and belligerent publisher. She desires a divorce. Unfortunately the publisher holds her father's note for 10,000 pounds and is rather surly about it. Father discovers that the young man she intends marrying (he has been a general...
...Bowlegged Honus Wagner and spry Tyrus Cobb, survivors of a Pittsburgh-Detroit World Series 16 years ago, pushed together seats through the press section; a white team (Pittsburg), a grey team (Washington), which had been warming up along the edges of a field earnestly green, looked up at a box wherein Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, stood with a ball in his hand. He threw it as far as he could, and the 1925 World's Series began...
...faced him in the fourth inning of the eighth game for the minor league championship. In that inning two sturdy Baltimorons, Batters Porter and Brainard, smashed home runs over the centerfield fence, brought in three runs with the result that Deberry, no longer smiling, was removed from the box and Baltimore gained a lead which gave them the game, 5 runs to 2, the series 5 games...
...Box office reports indicate that every stat will be taken when the first speaker mounts the platform tomorrow. Tickets are still to be had, especially in the cheaper sections of the house, but the management is preparing to install platform seats in anticipation of an eleventh hour rush...