Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emil Jannings, foremost German cinema actor: "I do not remember New York, as I left Brooklyn, my birthplace, for Germany at the age of one. I have returned to make pictures for a year in Hollywood, following my success with U. S. audiences in Passion, The Last Laugh, Variety. Debarking from the S. S. Albert Ballin in Manhattan, I carried my pet mocking bird in a cage. Warned by newsgatherers not to let Hollywood 'get' me, I replied: 'Ah, I am Jannings! I go to Hollywood. I am still Jannings...
White Wings. At 30, reticent, sensitive, Philip Barry finds himself well in the van of younger U.S. playwrights. Four of his plays have been produced: You and I (47 Workshop Harvard Prize Play, 1923); The Youngest (1924); In A Garden (1925); White Wings (1926). Not all have been successful, financially. But Mr. Barry is a success. Confidently, he holds definite opinions: he must have a year in which to write a play; Terence is his idea of a good playwright; he refuses to limit himself to one or two special themes; realism, "a slice of life," means nothing...
However little it may mean as a prophecy of future Crimson success, nevertheless, the brand of football displayed in the Stadium Saturday reflects great credit on Coach Horween and his charges. The Crimson attack was executed with a beautiful precision and drive. Interferers cleared out the opposing tacklers effectively, and the running backs showed speed; and a continued drive, which often carried them on long after they seemed downed for a certainty. They also picked their openings and employed a shifty method of running to much greater advantage than they have done at any time this year...
Yesterday's practice was of the regular Friday order. There was an extended kicking and signal drill, with Coady, French, Guarnaccia and Putnam doing the punting for the University outfit. Ohauncey had great success with his drop-kicking endeavors, placing eight out of ten boots between the bars from the thirty yard line...
There are few undergraduate institutions which profess a more necessary function than the Student Advisory Committee, and, as far at least as this year is concerned, few have fulfilled their functions with more intelligence or greater success. In that process of orientation which is so essential to the assimilation of a thousand new students, the advice which well-directed upperclassmen can give to Freshmen needs neither a sophisticated superiority nor the absence of a healthy indifference...