Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Footlights. As the theater's first personality, Tallulah currently commands its stiffest terms: 15% of the gross receipts, plus 25% of the net profits. During the 53-week cross-country tour that preceded the New York opening, the current revival of Private Lives took in about $1,000,000. Tallulah's average estimated weekly income, not including an occasional $2,500 to $3,000 for a radio stint...
...completely lax. This year they have produced only one show. They prefer-and are usually able-to fill their theaters with hits by other producers, turn out their own shows only when there are not enough to go around. Now, with theaters scarce, they get rentals of 35% of gross receipts, and up. With all their houses occupied by hits or near-misses, Shubert theaters are taking in money at the rate of $60 million a year...
Cash & Carry. Such hard selling accounts for Transocean's gross of $800,000 every month and net of $268,746 so far this year. It has also given Transocean a black mark with the Civil Aeronautics Board. CAB thinks that Transocean has stepped up its domestic and transatlantic flights to a point where it is in direct passenger competition with the hard-pressed scheduled lines. CAB will shortly hold hearings to see if Transocean should reduce its services...
...market's companies, all privately owned, keep their net earnings secret, but last year, with a boost in sales because of high meat prices, they had an estimated gross of more than $85 million, up 20% over prewar. Last month, when meat prices began falling, fish sales held up and in some cases even increased. Fishmen decided that "people had to eat so much of our stuff during the war that they finally got fond of it. It's the only food that hasn't been fouled up by being vitaminized, tenderized or homogenized." This year...
Walter Wanger, 54, who had the courage to invest in Joan and produce it, has "repeatedly gambled on a-little-ahead-of-the-parade movie ideas.- Joan of Arc cost $4,600,000 to film, another $1,000,000 for Technicolor; it may have to gross as much as $9,000,000. A producer who bets that much on a script without sex is taking an awful chance. But Wanger had faith in an idea; and his faith was shared by his partners (Sierra Pictures is owned 40% by Ingrid Bergman, 30% each by Wanger and Director Victor Fleming). Says...