Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with coal-mining. But while "How Green Was My Valley" has grossed heavily at the box-office through shrewd advertising based on the appeal of the book and the prestige of the director, John Ford; "The Stars Look Down," an English film directed by Carol Reed, has had to succeed on merit alone, even though it is the better picture. Aside from a week at the Fine Arts in Boston, its only local showing was at the U. T. last Wednesday. Since the producers did not spend any great sums of money exploiting it, the average exhibitor considers...
...Broadway the success of a play is usually determined by the drama critics of the New York papers. There are a few exceptions, such as "Tobacco Road" and "Hellzapoppin," that succeed in spite of bad notices, but nine times out of ten if a critic says "No" you may be sure the play will fold shortly. The success of a motion picture depends very slightly on critical acclaim. Proper exploitation and the star system have been developed into a fine art in Hollywood. It is advertising that accounts for a picture's financial success. And to Hollywood, money...
...girl is the high point of The Moon Is Down. For in this human episode there emerges for the first time in the literature of the democracies a pure jet of that implacability which has been the driving force of the Nazi revolution and without which the counterrevolution cannot succeed against...
Should the Crimson succeed in its mission to the South, and it would seem to have a very good chance of so doing, it will have picked itself off the floor and climbed into a triple tie for second place in the League standings. That is, it will be a triple tie if unbeaten Dartmouth continues its streak against Princeton tonight, a thing which appears almost a certainly...
Colgate got a new president last week whose bald head belies his years (40). To succeed retiring George Barton Cutten (TIME, Feb. 2), Colgate's trustees chose judicious, pipe-smoking Everett Needham Case, son-in-law of Owen D. Young...