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Most elaborate productions, like Wings, Beau Geste, Birth of a Nation, Ben Hur, which have experienced comparable difficulties have been successful at box-offices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some facts about 1944 movie tastes, as registered at the nation's box-offices: �A popular star does not insure a popular picture.

From Time Magazine Archive

I know that clerks in box-offices, with their correct neckties and their air of continually doing wonders over the telephone, are not, after all, the grand masters of the operatic world.

From The Ghost A Modern Fantasy by Bennett, Arnold

On every side luxurious theatres reared their stately facades, box-offices open for business invited all to enter, obstreperous ticket speculators jostled passersby in their eagerness to sell their seats.

From The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life by Walter, Eugene