Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister was at his comfortable best when he got slowly to his feet, leaned heavily on the dispatch box and observed like a true John Bull: "I don't think there was any Fascism in Italy before Communism began. The same thing was true of Germany. Force begot force, as it always does. In this country, thank God, these two forces are not worth that together!"-here Mr. Baldwin snapped his fingers. "A curious feature," he continued, "is that at this moment in England we are reversing the process of Italy and Germany, and the petty efforts...
...hundred years, local Ipswich members of the bar were denied free access to the courtroom and the Mayor, who is himself an Ipswich magistrate, was admitted only after arguing with his own police. In English divorce proceedings the wife, when examined by the Court, must stand in the witness box, which has no chair. Last week matters had been so arranged that all courtroom gallery seats faced by Mrs. Simpson from the box were vacant. Tickets were issued only for a few seats to which her back was turned...
Before the season's start in San Francisco some $200,000 from advance ticket sales had been taken in at the box office. Prices had been boosted to $6.60 top. Even so, there were still more customers than the opera house would hold. Again big names have done the trick, along with San Francisco's opera fever. Flagstad and Melchior are returning with an established drawing power. Soprano Lotte Lehmann will be another headliner along with Rethberg, Martinelli, Lawrence Tibbett, Friedrich Schorr, Charles Kullmann, Emanuel List, all from the Metropolitan roster. Faced with the most strenuous...
...masterpiece, had at least one thing in common: neither one has broken records for receipts. The critical acclaim which As You Like It received in London last summer and will receive in the U. S. this winter is not likely to save it from the same fate. Box-office appeal is one of the few virtues the film lacks. A skillful, energetic and scrupulously authentic production, into which Actress Bergner's director-husband, Paul Czinner, put all his brains and $1,000,000 of his money, it is aimed at Shakespeare's public rather than the cinema...
Nevertheless, undiscovered Boswell items were apparently so thickly scattered around his great-great-grandson's home that they all but got under the feet of guests. When Lady Talbot gave a house party in 1930, another mass of Boswell's papers was found in an old croquet box. This batch included the manuscript of the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, half again as long as the previously published work and the most valuable Boswell manuscript thus far discovered. Last week, 163 years after it was written, Boswell's full Journal was published...