Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ande Charlot, producer of Charlot's Revue, now playing in Boston, has consented to give a short talk on the producing of musical comedies. Mr. Charlot had attained great success in London by his spectacular revues, but, realizing that the heart of this type of show was some small detail of the whole piece, such as a single song hit or clever monologue, he sought to develop a new form of light entertainment which would be a combination of light opera and the now prevailing vaudeville type of revue. Peculiarly this has been the field of drama that the Dramatic...
...Allied-"White Russian" forces met with such success that at one time 80% of all Russian railways were in their hands...
...patriotic societies and, later, of the Savings Division of the U. S. Treasury (to sell Thrift Stamps). To Lafayette, an institution one-fifth the size of George Washington but with a more notable academic tradition, Dr. Lewis would take that scholarship, personal and exemplary, which made him a success as headmaster (1906-13) of Lake Forest Academy (Lake Forest, Ill.) and which the Encyclopaedia Britannica recognized when it enlisted him as a contributor...
...Glueck then explained that although criminological literature is full of statements as to the success and failure of former inmates of prisons, it is a matter of record that there is hardly one scientific study to support the estimates of success and failure...
...studying the successes of the released men, success is not looked upon in the customary limited way, but taken to include success in every conceivable line, family life, associations, religious attachments as well as business. In observing their business progress, it is to see how they have utilized the knowledge of the trade they learned at the reformatory. "For of course," Dr. Glueck said, "many of these young men became criminals for lack of knowing anything else to do. On the other hand we find great numbers of the men, at the end of the five-year period back...