Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stade pointed out that he will continue to let Cliffies eat box lunches in the Union. When Cliffies began to eat their own lunches in the Union last Fall, von Stade instructed the porters not to throw the girls...
...would have completed the sixth week of its run tonight. For a month it had been living a hand-to-mouth existence. The backers having with-drawn further financing, Leven had hoped to keep The Light Company alive with his own funds and what-ever money came across the box-office window. Advertising had to be cancelled, and, consequently, audiences had been small. At the same time, the cast and director worked on an entirely new show in order to redeem themselves to the critics, who, along with the lack of publicity, drove the public away in the first place...
...box-office take that followed left Leven's backers feeling skittish. Benjamin Ginsberg & Sons --one of the two principal backers-- threatened to throw Leven Enterprises out of the building, which Ginsberg owns. But Leven, who himself owns the equipment, furnishings, and stage inside the buildings, refused to go unless he took the whole cast and crew with him. The resulting negotiations turned up in a Boston After Dark article by Larry Stark. So, there it all was, right out there in front of the public. Finally, Leven ended the stalemate by accepting more of the financial responsibility...
LAST Saturday night, it was obvious that Jeremy Leven as tired. He had been working the box office; the actors had played their last scene a bit too loudly; the audience didn't half fill the theatre and those that did were none too responsive. Leven seemed to regard it all with controlled stoicism mixed, quite surprisingly, with more hope than desperation. He appears an unassuming man with enigmatic pale eyes and a small mustache. If, someday, someone makes a film called The Jeremy Leven Story --which is quite unlikely given the pervasive tenuousness surrounding the man's present existence...
UPSIDE BREAKOUT FROM A BOX tells technicians that a long stalemate between buyers and sellers, which has kept the stock's price in a constricted area, has ended with the shattering of the "topside resistance" line and a victory for buyers...