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...Women's teams outdraw men's teams as box-office attractions, not only in Hollywood but all over the country. Even Manhattan's famed Madison Square Garden succumbed to women's softball this summer to swell their coffers, put on a semiweekly program of double headers featuring their own Roverettes and visiting teams...
...Nation (1915) to Stowaway (1936), had been exhumed from storerooms, placed on view in cinemansions throughout the U. S. Result of the process was a pair of discoveries which, to an industry proverbially hypnotized by precedent, seemed utterly astounding. One was that any good old picture will often outdraw any poor new one. The other was that at least one old picture was the best cinema bargain...
Yesterday many of us were glad to outdraw our bank accounts to get our quota of tickets to the Princeton game at $5 apiece. We would have liked to get twice as many an twice the price, if necessary. Thousands will swarm from the byways and hedges to see two and twenty players fight over a little leather ball. They will expect great things. A single mistake may decide the game. One error may mean defeat. But what of it, our friend across the water asks. There is yet some joy in life. What remains of life does...