Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THREE years ago Harris Prior, director of The American Federation of Arts, was looking for a major show to mark the A.F.A.'s 50th anniversary celebration in 1959. Reading TIME'S cover story on Eero Saarinen (July 2, 1956), he noticed a box headed "The 20th Century Form Givers," was struck by the possibilities of making it the theme of a comprehensive and definitive exhibition of 20th century architecture. Prior went to TIME, asked it to tap its research and picture resources to assemble the show. Organized by Associate Editor Cranston Jones, who has won two American Institute...
...exception of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Russia's Bolshoi Ballet is the most extravagantly praised and least frequently viewed wonder of the world. The company's triumphant London visit three years ago (TIME, Oct. 15, 1956) marked its first appearance on a Western stage. Last week, amid box office uproar (see SHOW BUSINESS), Impresario Sol Hurok finally welcomed the Bolshoi to Manhattan for the start of a nine-week cross-continent tour. The long-awaited look was not a disappointment. But, as with many such wonders, the anticipation was somewhat more exciting than the actuality. In the initial...
...studied at Yale under the university's late famed Drama Professor George Pierce Baker (no kin). Next year he had set up a shop in a onetime chapel at Baylor, produced an experimental play. All the while he inveighed against the restrictions of conventional theaters-theaters with "one box for the actor and another box for the audience and that's all." The first thing he decided to do, Baker recalled last week, "was to break out of the old box...
Evidently this opportunity is one thing that Bostonians and their suburban neighbors, including, perhaps, the Harvard community--almost unanimously do not want. Repertory Boston is dying of one uncomplicated ailment: box-office malnutrition. Their productions were generally well-reviewed, their theatre was well-located and commodious, their advertising was widespread, their prices were low. But nobody came...
Northeastern took a 3-2 lead in the seventh when leadoff hitter John Quinlin waltzed three feet out of the batters' box faking a bunt and managed to get nicked by a slow curve. After a sacrifice, he was brought home on a single by leftfielder John Erickson, who batted in three runs...