Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual message on the State of the Union. He first expressed grateful thanks to a kind Providence, "whose protection has been ever present and whose bounty has been manifold and abundant." He summed up the good state in which the U.S. finds itself in the winter of 1956 (see box). Then, in accordance with the constitutional sanction, he turned to the prospects for the future...
...Movie programs at neighborhood theaters will be changed more often in 1956 because of a 10% increase in movie production last year, the first such production rise in Hollywood since 1951. Exhibitors believe that more movies playing for shorter runs will help raise the box-office take, which suffered a recession in 1955 (TIME...
...Loew's Inc., which runs MGM, announced that its earnings for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 1955 will be lower than the $6,577,311 it made for the 1954 period. The dip in earnings is largely the result of two M-G-M box-office flops: The Prodigal, starring Lana Turner, which cost $3,000,000 and to date has grossed $2,200,000 in the U.S., and Jupiter's Darting, with Esther Williams, which cost $3,000,000 and has recouped only...
...machine as it picks out the card containing questions; 3) "Thinking music," to match the cerebrations of the contestant as he tries to come up with the right answer; and 4) "Cold-Sweat music," to match the audience mood as the contestant broods inside the illuminated box during the 30 seconds allowed before he tries for the big money. According to Leyden, the best suspense music is supplied by muted brasses, and combinations like the piccolo, harp and xylophone. A piece like Ravel's Bolero is best for times of tension...
...hoppy ending, in which the hero gets the heroin. The Johnston office, standing to the Production Code ("The illegal drug traffic and drug addiction must never be presented"), has stamped its official nix on the picture-the sort of thundering knock that usually brings a lightning boost at the box office. On the screen, however, the picture provides much more than the cheap thrill it promises. The hero is a man who gets lost on the West Side of Chicago and does not bother to go looking for himself. The script, mild enough in comparison with Nelson Algren...