Word: sales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South Pacific (music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd; book adapted from James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific by Mr. Hammerstein & Joshua Logan; produced by the Messrs. Rodgers & Hammerstein in association with Leland Hayward & Mr. Logan) opened to an advance sale of $500,000 and the kind of notices ("utterly captivating"-"truly great") that should keep it on Broadway for years. As an all-star production, it almost merits such notices. As a show, it does...
...Manhattan, Gimbels threw a crowd-catching sale of summer furniture-and put thousands of Easter hats on the counters at $5 and up. In San Francisco, the City of Paris store slashed prices a third to a half on $160,000 worth of draperies. Four big carpetmakers (Bigelow-Sanford, Alexander Smith, Mohawk and James Lees & Sons) cut prices from 10% to 20%. Thanks to such measures and a burst of fair weather and Easter buying, department store sales for the week ending April 2 were 8% above last year's. But the gain was too small to cause much...
Tickets are no sale at Phillips Brooks House and the Coops for the play, to be given at 8:30 p.m. May 6 and 7 at Agassiz Theater. Mail orders are now being accepted at Holyoke...
...response to the communication, one well-known Holyoke liquor dealer asserted that the sale of alcoholic beverages to college students, female as well as male, is an acute problem in that area, as many of the students come from states where purchases may be made by anyone over 17. After arriving in Massachusetts, they feel that they are still governed by home state laws and employ a number of subterfuges to insure a steady liquor supply, he stated...
Wintergreen for President" is the featured item in the Harvard band's second album, "Half Time," which goes on sale in the House dining halls and at the Union today...