Word: sellout
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...amusing and entertaining." With an artist friend he prepared dummies and peddled his plan from publisher to publisher until it was accepted by the huge and profitable Hulton Press, owners of the Picture Post (circ. 1,500,000). Its first issue a fortnight ago was a 750,000-copy sellout. For last week's issue newsdealers had placed cash-backed orders for 1,986,000 copies...
...last two months of the seven-month run, the Barrymore had a sellout...
...first one-man show, held in Paris when he was 22, was a sellout. By 1908, bored with his success as a clever conventional painter, he began experimenting. He joined the Cubists and Futurists, daubed brightly colored abstractions...
...squeeze. He fixed one flaw right away by having the libretto translated from French into English. New sets, a bright young cast, some comical choreography by Charles Weidman, and some overall Halasz humor fixed the rest. The first production last year was a hit. Halasz quickly scheduled five more sellout performances. Next to Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, Three Oranges became City Opera's biggest hit-big enough for Halasz to open his spring season with it last week...
...Little Afraid. Most astonishing to Ashton fans was the new, contorted violence of his work. When Illuminations came to an end (with the shooting of Rimbaud by Poet Paul Verlaine), the sellout audience brought the house down...