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Success at Any Price (RKO) is a manual of futility, bitterness and despair, adapted from John Howard Lawson's play Success Story and designed to bludgeon home Hollywood's maxim that money is not everything. Joe Martin (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is prompted by the death of his gangster brother to leave the East Side and rise in the world. Helped by his sweetheart Sarah (Colleen Moore), he gets a job in an advertising agency. His success soon begins when with the aid of a dictionary he turns out better copy than a college-bred rival. By dint...
...Gold Coasters boast these boatings: cox. Joseph H. Macey '36; stroke, A. Douglas Robertson 1G; 7, John H. Mendenhall '36; 6 Peter W. Jopling '35; '5, Frederic H. White ocC; 4, Collier Wrighter '36; 3 Richard B. Johnson '36; 2, Horace A. White '36, and bow, Frank B. Lawson...
Gentlewoman (by John Howard Lawson; Group Theatre, producer). The heroine (Stella Adler) of this play is a soft Park Avenue widow who announces, with unjustified assurance: "My head is full of epigrams and my heart is full of tears." The hero (Lloyd Nolan), a communistic Casanova, replies, "You are smeared with perfume and emotion." As might be anticipated, their alliance is not lasting. At the end of the play he is headed for Iowa City, plotting to become a nuisance to the government. She, unmarried still, is planning an accouchement. She hopes her child will forget the informality...
...Victor Lawson sold the Record, made Charles Dennis chief editorial writer and manager of foreign news for his evening paper, the Daily News. Lawson and Dennis made the News's foreign service, for a time, the best in the U. S. When Lawson and Dennis started, most foreign news reached Chicago second-hand by way of London. Dennis trained a staff of correspondents, sent them all over the world...
...beggar smuggled their stories to Tientsin. In 1904, the News had a reporter traveling with Kuroki's Army through Manchuria. When Japan silenced the wireless on the London Times's dispatch boat, the News was left with the only working press craft in the Yellow Sea. Victor Lawson was more concerned with making the News a good paper than running up his circulation, but the News grew with its city...