Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birthday wishes and greetings from Sinaia [royal palace] which is white with snow. Have had some days of real, perfect rest. Feeling so well that I am going downtown on Sunday. We are all extremely interested in the news from your journey and I am utterly pleased at your success. I hope your cold has gone. Don't overtire yourself. Fondest love from...
...George Templeton Strong's* Vie d'Artiste, a symphonic poem for violin and orchestra. Josef Szigeti was the soloist, drew ripe measure of grave, cool beauty to paint the mood of a creator, peaceful as a flower at first, but bruised and beaten by a mocking Success back into a wiser contentment. Critics found it pleasant, a little sentimental. They commended Conductor Willem Mengelberg for introducing it, and for giving Bloch's Israel Symphony, that strong, honest portrayal of the suffering of the Jews, bright with savagery, sensual, despairing...
...Symphony there broadcast for the first time. It was an experiment, Conductor Alfred Hertz had announced; he demanded a guarantee fund of $25,000 to see it through. Came the Sunday concert, and radio fans, thousands of them, stopped their Sunday putterings to listen in, voted the experiment a success. Managers scouting around the darkened Curran Theatre, saw great patches of vacant seats, thought differently, gave thanks to the few loyal subscribers and the Standard Oil Co., who had furnished the guarantee...
Wild Rose. Arthur Hammerstein's annual operetta floats along on Rudolf Friml's melodies to merited success. Wild Rose and One Little Kingdom, especially, belong at the top of the day's popular music. The play, of course, is laid in a, mythical kingdom, wherefore the princess fights the inevitable fight to reconcile love and duty, with the usual sad results; her U. S. lover acquits himself as he might be expected to before a U. S. audience. Thin comedy is compensated for by Desiree Ellinger, Joseph Santley, and sprightly dancers. But above all, there...
...asking for more) to write a book of jingles called When We Were Very Young (1924). Writing things was nothing new for Author Milne. He had had plays of his played both sides of the Atlantic (Mr. Pim Passes By, The Truth About Blayds, The Dover Road). But the success of his children's book startled every one. This season he has another book, with Christoper Robin doing things all through it with Winnie-the-Pooh. Winnie was Christopher's favorite Big Bear called "Pooh" because of a noise made blowing flies off his nose...