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This season, theater lovers can look with some hope to a midtown Manhattan cubbyhole. There, amid the jangle of telephones, a stagestruck, 27-year-old girl rides herd on thousands of good tickets to the best shows in town. Plump, Brooklyn-born Sylvia Siegler works 14 hours a day on her new business-the Show-of-the-Month Club, which has caught on so fast that next week it moves into a whole floor of offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Standing Room Only | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Sylvia, who also runs a talent agency and books theater parties in her spare time, charges $10 for ten months of club membership. For this, the member gets a chance to buy a pair of tickets, at the box-office price, to the club's monthly show selection, or an alternate. He also gets the club newspaper's breathless bulletins on forthcoming shows and, as an occasional "bonus," a chance to buy tickets at a discount to a preview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Standing Room Only | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Also named to executive posts for the year are Sylvia Rice '50, of Barnard Hall and Millbury, vice-president; Jennifer Post '51, of Barnard Hall and Haverford, Pennsylvania, secretary; Jean O'Brien '51, of Belmont, treasurer; and Elizabeth Tucker '52, of Barnard Hall and West Hartford, Connecticut, sophomore representative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Braverman Voted Annex President | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

...Sylvia Rice '50 of Cabot Hall and Millbury: major--English; make-up editor, news editor, Radcliffe News; Athletic Association Council; Outing Club; assistant editor, Redbook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Nominates 24 for Student Government | 3/3/1949 | See Source »

...fire at Radcliffe's Whitman Hall was discovered and extinguished by Sylvia Nuser '49 at 9:50 p.m. Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Girl Quells Fire With Hands | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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