Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant comedienne. Having previously all but ignored Marilyn's presence in Britain, the austere Times showed its rare enthusiastic side and proclaimed of Marilyn's performance in Bus Stop (TIME. Sept. 3): "What a partner she would have been for Chaplin in his heyday!" Thrummed the Daily Mail: "She reaffirms her position as the screen's most grown-up child actress...
...enough good seats, the scalper has to tap several sources. He has friends mail in for tickets for potential hits, buys other tickets through theater benefits, paying the steep benefit markup. He also buys directly from the box office or from reputable brokers, often luring assistants to help him, since his money still speaks louder than the New York Department of Licenses, which has fruitlessly tried to end illegal ticket practices. Some small-timers find it profitable to sell their position in line for My Fair Lady's 30 standing-room tickets a day for as much...
...drastically curtail the supply of available tickets. In its first 3½ months, for example, 54 out of the 120 Fair Lady performances were completely sold out to benefit parties. At the non-benefit performances, 80% of the balcony and 20% of the orchestra seats are sold through direct-mail requests. At best, the 70-odd licensed ticket brokers divide up the remaining 650 orchestra seats, are legally entitled to sell each ticket for a $1.10 commission. (In 1955 New York ticket brokers sold approximately $8.8 million worth of tickets, made nearly $1.5 million in commissions...
Copies of a new college publication, Ivy Magazine, are scheduled for distribution by mail to students either today or Monday...
CRIMSON representatives, flanked by ballot-watchers from the student political organizations, will collect the polls in the House dining halls, at Harkness Commons, and at Vanderbilt Hall of the Medical School. Women at Radcliffe will find the polls in their mail-boxes this morning and are asked to deposit them in the Student Government boxes at bell desks...