Word: trask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vault while, behind his back, a hand reaching through the window grabbed a stack of banknotes from a table. "While you're busy saving pennies you're losing dollars," read the ad. On page 14 the Miscellany department carried the following item: "In Detroit, Theater Cashier Doris Trask dropped a penny, stooped to pick it up, straightened to discover that somebody had reached in her cage, snatched...
Penny Wise. In Detroit, Theater Cashier Doris Trask dropped a penny, stooped to pick it up, straightened to discover that somebody had reached in her cage, snatched...
...renaissance began in 1944 when Franklin Trask, formerly a student at the Graduate School of Education and a teacher of drama exhumed from its mouldy sepulcher the idea of a year round stock company. He procured Brattle Hall for his winter headquarters and began enticing New York actors and actresses away at non-astronomical wages with the bait, rare for the theatrical world, of steady work in one place. He figured that he could attract full houses without paid advertising by scaling ticket prices down, putting on a different play every week, and distributing large numbers of "guest" tickets...
...accurately he figured is brought home, not always pleasantly, to Mr. Trask on mornings when he finds himself alone down in the basement surrounded by piles and piles of tickets and posters with three phones jangling at once and someone upstairs impatiently ringing the bell at the booth. There are notices outside proclaiming the glorious fact that the Brattle Hall Theatre is sold out every night. And the hardest part of the job is not drumming up trade but conciliating ticket buyers who procrastinated too long to get the seats they wanted. To turn out a play each and every...
...circular, rotating bookcase suitable for stowing away various dead bodies and homicidal instruments, and this necessitated a purchase. But the carpentry skill of the property men enables the company to get around most of the many problems of this sort less expensively. To illustrate this point Mr. Trask indicated in the crowded prop room an ugly, box-like structure constructed of mattresses and a few sticks of wood which he said could be made to resemble nearly any couch or sofa called for merely by the skillful draping over it of a slip cover...