Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sequence in which a tottering old lady settles down on a garden bench to tell a young girl the story of her life. The life story starts at the court of Napoleon III where the old lady is lovely young Marcia Mornay (Jeanette MacDonald), enjoying the first fruits of success as an opera singer. After rendering two songs at a court soiree, Marcia goes home with her manager, Nazaroff, agrees to marry him as a reward for making her rich & famous. As cinemaddicts are well aware, grati tude is a bad excuse for matrimony. No sooner is Marcia engaged...
Shavitch calls his new method Synchro-Opera. He says he is a "synchronizer" rather than a conductor. Since his demonstration has been a success, he will be authorized to train 20 "synchronizers" for opera companies to tour the Soviet Union. Traveling light and cheaply, each company will need only 20 singers, film & sound producing devices, simple scenery. In time Shavitch hopes to put the scenery as well as the sound on films...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt moved into the White House in 1933, Marriner Stoddard Eccles was a Republican banker in Ogden, Utah with a reputation for success and a hatful of original ideas. Not until 1934 did the lean, intense young Mormon go to Washington to dig in as an assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury. Within a year, to the vast consternation of his fellow Eastern bankers, Mr. Eccles was head of the Federal Reserve Board and writing his novel notions into the law of the land. He was not only committed to a strong central banking authority which...
Noel Coward's idea is that when success came to him, it was about time, and that there was nothing chancy in its coming. A specialist in unblushingness, last week he unblushingly presented the clever story of his own success. The audience found Present Indicative, like most Coward productions, an entertaining if not altogether endearing performance...
...each time he has come back again with an even bigger success in his pocket. He now considers himself primarily a writer...