Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoa, there! Wait a minute! What's this about the Noel Coward doings being the "first smash hit of a middling season" [TIME, Dec. 7]? What about Stage Door! What about Tovarich! I'll grant that the season has been even less than middling and the crop of flops has been a bumper one, but since first they opened both of these plays have been complete sellouts. Stage Door has never fallen below $19,500 a week at the Music Box and if that isn't a smash hit my name is Ivan Ivanovitch...
John Peter Toohey and John Latham Toohey are father & son, rival pressagents. Father John Peter has been general representative for Producer Sam H. Harris (Stage Door) for six years. Son John Latham. 20, got his first job three months ago with Helen Deutsch, pressagent for Producer Gilbert Miller (Tovarich). A "smash hit'' can be judged by its box-office score. Week of Nov. 30: Tovarich: $21,000; Stage Door: $19,000; Tonight...
...after the Supreme Court had ruled the AAAct off the road. As a reward for diverting their acres from "soil-depleting" crops (cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco) to "soil-building" crops (alfalfa, soybeans, grasses), farmers will receive Federal bounties averaging slightly less than $10 per acre. Thus, by the back door of soil conservation, the New Deal will continue to achieve some production control of cash crops, which the Supreme Court has forbidden it to approach directly...
...theme of the north wall is derived from the ancient Niebelung Legend and is symbolic of greed for power and its resultant oppression of humanity. The lunette above the door represents the cavern of Niebelheim. The dwarfs who inhabit this underground region are working to create the destructive wealth of the world, symbolized in the legend by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold, for their ruler, Alberich, who is lashing them on to greater labors...
...left of the door, Alberich's hand reaches for the Rhine gold, while the hands of the Rhine Maidens attempt to restrain him. At the right is the curse of the Ring, the mailed fist thrust through the Ring and holding a sword, which symbolizes the threat of destruction with fire and sword by those who wield the power of the Ring...