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...SRO for Swan Song...
...Although he has played to SRO in London (twelve weeks) and in Glasgow (eight weeks) and has never laid an egg anywhere, there is some apprehension among his supporters about New York City. Praying circles all over the world will pray all night, opening night, like actors in Sardi's after a premiere...
...Pacifico plays twice daily, seven days a week, with the SRO sign always out. The 50 members of the cast, most of them accustomed to doing comic opera before half-filled houses, go home gaily after work at 2 a.m. The pay for top stars: about...
...long after California's Judge Stanley N. (for Nelson) Barnes, 53, became chief trustbuster of the Eisenhower Administration, he was asked: "When is the Department [of Justice] going to stop this ambushing of the innocent businessman?" Last week, before an SRO crowd of lawyers gathered in Boston to hear his first major policy address, Assistant Attorney General Barnes gave a sharp answer: only when the businessman is really innocent. So far, he observed dryly, he had found "some, but not many, of these 'innocents.' " Anyone who thought that the Republicans intended to scrap or vitiate the antitrust...
...capacity of 1,300 cars, was sold out at $10 a car, and 7,000 chairs were set up for the overflow customers who had to park their cars outside the theater. One hard-luck theater, Manhattan's Academy of Music, made a $12,000 refund to its SRO audience when the TV picture failed. Some theaters reported a gross of $15,000-more than they usually take in during a week of showing movies...