Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brattle Hall--"Success". Reviewed in this issue...
Perhaps the task of self-effacement is made easier by the fact that the lion's share of the play goes to her husband. Mr. Lunt is the "Meteor", the egoistic genius who, in his spurt of overwhelming success, ruins the lives of all about him. Never has he given a more powerful performance, never displayed so artistically, his uncanny instinct for attack and transition. A long speech in his hands never becomes boring. Each new thought that forms in the character's head is projected definitely by changes in his voice, in his body, and his face...
...bottom, the deliciousness of meals relative to cost and freedom from compulsion, financial or otherwise, are the conditions for success of the House dining-rooms. Edmund Callis Berkeley...
...first act he weans his weak-kneed son from a dawning individuality to a minor post in his deadening little world of public success. But his memory has been prodded by the appearance of his school-days chum; and when he goes to make an important speech in the shires he sleeps in the bedroom which was the headquarters of his early dream-world. He dreams; his beloved Sally is there as always. In the morning he finds his "beauteous maiden" seated on the garden wall, so romantically like the dream that he renounces his career, and the high likelihood...
...concluding his talk. Mr. Watkins presented two alternative futures for American industry. He admitted as possible the success of the "New Capital", which involves labor stock holding and profit sharing. But he favors the view that overproduction and unemployment will combine to place American Industry in a state of decline