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Badge of Courage. Anyone with a taste for such high-speed thrills and the price of a ticket to St. Moritz can try the Cresta chute for 24 Swiss francs ($5.60). During most of its accident-spotted, 72-year history, Cresta has catered to blue-blooded sportsmen-nobility and well-heeled wanderers with an urge to prove their courage by risking their necks. Only in 1948, when the Winter Olympics were held at St. Moritz, did Cresta-type sledding get worldwide recognition as part ot the games. But year after year the international brigade returns. There are always...
...productions and four premiered works, plus concerts and ballets. More extravagant was the $1,200,000 subsidy to the Rome Opera in 1955, when it took in only $600,000 at the box office, or the $1,000,000 to the San Carlo Opera with only $300,000 in ticket sales. Despite the low box office, such houses are usually full because of cheap seats (40?) and privileged spectators-politicians, functionaries, war wounded, pregnant women-who get in at cut rates or free...
...increase their chances of hitting a homer, producers are relying more than ever on advance ticket sales. By far the best way to peddle tickets before opening night is to hire a name star, e.g., Ethel Merman, whose cult is large and enthusiastic. Twelve backers, including NBC, coughed up $450,000 to provide Merman with Happy Hunting. As anticipated, she drove her sputtering vehicle to solvency before the first-night curtain. The advance sale: $1,500,000. Part of this take came from theater parties, a growing force on Broadway, which trade tickets for contributions to charity. (Happy Hunting drew...
Undergraduate tickets to the varsity hockey game against Yale on March 2 at the Boston Garden must be picked up at the Harvard Athletic Association ticket office at 60 Boylston St. They will not be distributed in the Houses...
Applications for undergraduate tickets to the varsity hockey game against Yale on March 2 at the Boston Garden must be filed at the Ticket Office, 60 Boston St., by 5 p.m. today. Students may purchase one ticket at half-price for personal use only...