Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tickets must be brought or exchanged for coupon 18 of the H.A.A. annual booklet before the event; they will admit the bearer to one of two events, but not to both. Admission will be to the event but to no particular seat and the purchaser must delete which contest he wishes to see before buying the ticket...
...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 in such places as the Coop and the H.P.C...
...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...
...Crimson's clash with Boston College will be the first basketball game staged between these two neighbors since 1906, and one of the larger crowds of the collegiate cage season is expected above the North Station. Frank O. Lunden, ticket manager at the H.A.A., reminded students that 5 o'clock today is the deadline for the exchange of the B.C. coupon in the student booklet for a reduced admission...
...first prefabricated theater in the U.S., designed to do practically every thing for the patron except pay for his ticket, was opened at Long Beach, Calif, last week. Built by National Theatres Corp.'s president Charles Skouras, it is constructed of steel, gypsum and Fiberglas sections and seats 1,164 people. Said a brochure handed out to first-nighters: "The instinct of self-preservation is one of the strongest in mankind. No audience can fully relax unless it is assured nothing in the way of accident, fire or earthquake can mar its entertainment." To give this assurance the theater...