Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freedom Ring (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Latest Hollywood discovery in box-office lures is the value of Americanism. Flag-waving of the George Cohan variety has always been a box-office standby, but the cinema's new patriotism goes deeper into the last refuge. It stems from: i) a sudden awareness that in failing to capitalize the forces which produced the New Deal, John L. Lewis and the Wagner Act, the cinema has missed a golden opportunity; and 2) the general eagerness of producers to forestall a wave of U. S. antiSemitism, which they greatly dread...
...league baseball, fans wait to see who is pitching before they lay their bets. With symphony orchestras, the man whom fans either cheer or boo is the conductor. Arturo Toscanini having finished 16 innings with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, a comparative rookie named Hans Wilhelm Steinberg stepped into the box last week, while veteran Bruno Walter sat by in the dugout, ready for action...
Born in the Greenwich Village Italian colony 37 years ago, Anthony Sisti began to draw early, though he says his cafe-keeping father never drew anything but beer from a tap. He began to box in 1917 at a Buffalo, N.Y. gym, and the next year won the amateur bantamweight championship of New York State. From then until 1930 he fought 100 professional bouts, lost 15, earned enough to go to Europe for five years and enough while there to pay tuition at the Florence Academy, where he got his doctor's degree in painting...
...expected jitterbug riots occurred on the opening day. Shaw's vocalist had to burrow to his microphone through the ecstatic exhibitionists swarming the stage. At the Paramount, a boy hurt himself jumping from a box. At the Shubert a girl swooned clean away...
...week's end Benny Goodman could claim technical victory. Box-office receipts were approximately equal ($24,000), but the Paramount, where Artie Shaw was playing, had a 99? top to the Shubert's 75?. Addicts of Shaw's exciting recordings of Begin the Beguine and Backbay Shuffle were disappointed by their idol's cold stage personality. Goodman's matchless trio and quartet and the smooth rendition of old favorites like One O'Clock Jump and Don't Be That Way won back wavering allegiance...