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Mitchell's first authoring job was a collaboration with Lee Tracy, who had an idea for a play, could not get it beyond Act I. The result was Glory Hallelujah, the flop that introduced Tracy to Broad way. Next Tom Mitchell dramatized Novelist Floyd Dell's Little Accident, a hit, which Mitchell directed and acted in. He also wrote a play of his own, Cloudy With Showers, bought and shelved by Paramount. By the time he closed his stage career by going to Hollywood to play in Lost Horizon (1936), Tom Mitchell had played more than...
...second-floor bedroom window, he presses a button. From a swimming pool in the yard a model airplane climbs to him on cables. Sitting on a trapeze slung from the undercarriage, he presses another button, the plane heads for the pool. Mr. Moore lets go in time to flop into the water. On the journey back he just hangs on until the plane deposits him on the balcony again...
...beginning to elbow his yacht alarmingly, suddenly cut a gash in her planking. In rushed the water. There was nothing to do but abandon ship and take to the rowboat. Mournfully the professor watched his dream of ten years, his $100,000 yacht on which he had no insurance, flop top-heavily on its side. Next thing he and his two shipmates noticed was that the builders had neglected to put seats and oarlocks in the rowboat. They drifted helplessly away with the current. The rowboat leaked. The three men bailed, shouted for help, signaled with a flashlight. They drifted...
...mean, hard and sometimes as foul as their semisavage existence. Result was no U. S. The Lower Depths, but a bleak, unhappy little tale with a powerful climax, some of whose tenseness was due to a nervous feeling that if Author Steinbeck made one false step he would flop off his tightrope...
...show opens a hit, Maney can choose his spots, reserve good stories for the big papers. With a flop, veterans like Maney don't try pleading or high-pressuring. They think fast and try stunts. Publicity stunts have turned many a tide. Anna Held's fame dates chiefly from her milk baths. Belasco strewed tanbark outside a theatre, ostensibly to cushion street noises, actually to start people talking. Lions have been let loose in hotel bedrooms, Ziegfeld girls have marched to New York's City Hall in tights...