Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, returned to Ithaca to direct athletics and establish himself as a campus character, famed for his brown tweed hat with grouse feather. What little writing he did was for local, college or farm papers. The New Yorker tried him out for two weeks in May, with instant success. Sensing in his work some of the curious detachment that marked Andy White's "Notes and Comment," The New Yorker persuaded Rym Berry to leave campus & farm, to come to town...
...poverty in a Paris garret. He shares both the garret and a single pair of trousers with Painter Paul Cezanne (Vladimir Sokoloff). One day Zola listens to the story of a girl of the Paris streets, sees in it the material for a novel and writes his first great success, Nana (a tale with which Producer Samuel Goldwyn and beauteous Actress Anna Sten had less success 54 years later...
When Muni was 18 he was making an average of $15 a week. He was a success. In 1917 he showed up on Manhattan's lower East Side where he was soon spotted and signed up by Maurice Schwartz of the Yiddish Art Theatre. For seven years Muni plugged hard at his work. In 1926 Sam Harris gave him the lead in the play We Americans. The play was a hit and Muni's future was virtually assured. Success did not change him much. He did not gamble or drink or imitate the ways of the Gentiles...
...droop-mustached French President Albert Lebrun, but last week 160 pavilions were complete and the Exposition was all but finished. Wiseacres agreed that a solid month of sightseeing would be necessary to make a thorough job of Paris 1937 and that this week the one word for it was "SUCCESS...
...Dean Howard Le Sourd of the Boston University Graduate School set out to experiment in this direction by extracting morally helpful episodes from old feature films. Encouraged by Arthur De Bra, a soft-spoken Hays lieutenant who was once a teacher himself, they constructed a series called Secrets of Success. Educator May got the Rockefeller General Education Board to contribute $75,000 to the Progressive Education Association to test Secrets of Success next fall in a number of selected classrooms. Last week Experimenters May and De Bra were both on hand at 1600 Broadway, both confident that their reviewers have...