Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...box office, the debate about Traubel and Flagstad is irrelevant: Wagner continues to sell out. There are still some who prefer Flagstad's glacial perfection to Traubel's warmer but more uneven performances. Traubel's singing, being more emotional, generally improves as the evening goes on; she is at her best in the great third act of Tristan...
...aids, 3) telephone service direct to seats, 4) art exhibits, 5) free coffee and French cookies in a mirror-lined lounge equipped with backgammon tables and a television set, 6) free cosmetics in the champagne-colored ladies' room. Non-reserved seats will be sold (for 60?) at the box office. But Reade hopes there will be few available. Subscriptions to date: more than 50% of the theater's 599-seat capacity...
Infra-red rays, which every photographer knows pierce fog, are the basis of one system, now being tested. Each signal box would have an infra-red generator; when its danger signal was up, a box would pour a constant beam of rays down the track. An approaching train would pick up the bad news on a photoelectric cell in the driver...
...other gadget: sonar, radar's supersonic cousin. A sonar-equipped locomotive, by means of an oscillator and amplifier, would keep sending out whistle blasts pitched so high that nobody could hear them; but if a signal box ahead had its danger arm up, a reflector would send back the sound waves to the locomotive. There a microphone would detect the supersonic racket, a bell would ring (or a light flash), and the engineer would throttle down to his foggy-foggy...
...Box-office grosses for the last couple of months were about 8% higher than a year ago. This did not necessarily mean that more people were going to the movies. Admission prices had also gone up about 8% (from an average 42½? to 46?). But, said the trade sheet Variety: "Biz remains terrific, no matter how you look...