Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When accountants had added up box-office receipts, Miss Shirley Temple emerged as the Cinemactress of the Year...
...Washington's National Theatre one night last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt took Secretary of the Treasury & Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. to see Helen Hayes as Victoria Regina. So charmed was Mrs. Roosevelt by Actress Hayes' performance that when the play ended, she stood up in her box, clapped for five curtain calls. Next day she had Miss Hayes in to the White House for luncheon and at 3 p. m. Actress Hayes hurried back to her hotel suite in high excitement, canceled half a dozen appointments, summoned a beautician to fix her bobbed hair. That evening by special...
...box-office Treasurer Earle Lewis proudly reported that subscription sales showed an increase of 35% over last season. Seats for the opening week were selling like bargain counter goods and there was not one to be had for love or money for opening night...
Photographers watched every limousine hoping to catch Goelets, Vanderbilts, Astors. Sight was to see some of the box-holders making hesitant entrances, eager to be photographed, while others scooted quietly to their places. Mrs. Vanderbilt was there wearing her characteristic hair-ribbon...
...strength of her London success and her box-office power Cinemactress Grace Moore has been re-engaged. Pretty Helen Jepson will be given more leading roles than she had last season. Outstanding contraltos are Karin Branzell, Doris Doe, Gladys Swarthout, Cyrena Van Gordon, Rose Bampton, Kathryn Meisle and Marion Telva, who has been badly missed since she left the Metropolitan in 1931. Outstanding tenors: Lauritz Melchior, Paul Althouse, Giovanni Martinelli. Charles Hackett. Nino Martini. The baritones: Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Richard Bonelli. The bassos: Ezio Pinza, Ludwig Hofmann, Emanuel List, Leon Rothier...