Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than their money's worth. Seats for San Carlo opera sell at $1.50 top. The people who patronize it are neither snobs nor sophisticates. In Manhattan and in Chicago the big opera companies have had to beg for their lives. The San Carlo Company, supported only by its box-office takings, toured 20,000 miles last season, made money...
...better. As each male spectator buys his ticket for Night of January 16, he is offered the chance of serving on the play's jury, receiving a fee of $3.* The jurors selected are marched up on the stage soon after the curtain rises, there sit in a box throughout the performance, return their verdict after retiring to the wings for a vote...
...interspersed with "wawa, wa-wa." Catfish Row will be on view, with its dilapidated tenement fronts, its old street lamps, its "Gawd-fearin women" and its "Gawd-damnin' men.'' As in the play, the crippled beggar Porgy drives his ribby goat, hunched in a cart made of packing box labeled "Wild Rose Soap, Pure & Fragrant." The whoring Bess again finds shelter and love with Porgy after the bullying Crown commits his drunken murder...
From cubbyhole on Boylston Street to soap box on Boston Common is the latest excursion of Philip Francis Samuels, Baconian scholar extraordinary, author and vendor of "Man vs. Ape in the Play Earco Rammed"--or positive proof that Bacon wrote Shakspere...
Tonight's production is a special Harvard-Radcliffe performance sponsored by the ten Harvard and Radcliffe chapters of the N S L and the S L I D. Tickets may be exchanged at the box office, Huntington and Mass. Avenues, for seats at the Saturday matinee or evening performances...