Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your audience. If you wish of permanent popularity, give the best in you. Rehearse your lines continually and you will never get state. Every show should be a perfect show and every night should be a first night. The Bachelor of Arts will find his degree no hindrance. Merit is the prime basis of ultimate success in the theatre as in other walks of life. Every actor will have moments when he is flustered when he forgets his lines. It is then that college training will help a man out. The best actor I ever knew, Frederick Ward...
...excellent judgment by reserving its enthusiastic applause for the scenes in which Ed Wynn dominates. Apart from his other talents, this comedian has an excellent reputation for his ability to build up situations for his fellow-players. Many of the specialty numbers in the "Laugh Parade" draw their chief merit from the running commentary of Mr. Wynn in the background, and the peculiar funniness which he can impart to misfit clothing. Inspired by the success of "Of These I Sing," with satire on contemporary politics, "The Laugh Parade" directs most of its gags in the same direction, but with...
...divisions. Galliéni, whom the French Cabinet had left behind as Military Governor of Paris when they tied to Bordeaux, received scant official thanks for his astuteness at the Marne, incurred Joffre's enmity, was forced out of active command and died at Versailles in 1916. But merit triumphed. On April 21, 1921, to the rapturous delight of Paris, dead General Galliéni was posthumously created a Marshal of France...
...fought through several campaigns against the "White Armies," rose to middling military rank, middling popularity. When Russia's civil war was over Comrade Bulganin's prestige carried him to directorship of Moscow's biggest electrical machinery factory. It did well. He received a Red order of merit, quietly became a power in the Moscow Soviet. He was elected its president-Mayor of Moscow-last year...
Tribune and Post printed comparatively restrained reports. But the Daily News and Hearst's Herald & Examiner scarcely tried to conceal their evident belief that Mrs. Pollak's efforts to escape punishment were as ludicrous and hilarious as Roxie Hart's, also as empty of merit and as likely to succeed. The Herald & Examiner assigned its cinema reviewer, Carol Frink, to cover the trial as she might cover a comic melodrama...