Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Lavery's portraits are distinguished by concentration upon pattern and composition and by a unique green which he uses in his flesh tints. Lavery has painted the British Royal family with notable success; a man of strong and erratic enthusiasms, he last week proposed to portray Prize-fighter Gene Tunney whom he met at a banquet. "He is the favorite of the Gods," exclaimed Sir John, "Someone ... I myself . . . should paint him for the Royal Academy...
...Jake, Sam Harris, "Ziggy," the Selwyns, George M. Cohan, Winthrop Ames, William A. Brady, A. H. Woods, George White, Dillingham-everyone who sees plays or reads about them has heard of these. There is only one new man among the first-line producers. Younger than the rest but equally successful, he took it easy last week while others were in a ferment of excitement, getting their new offerings ready for the stage. Having already supplied Broadway with the first success of the season, The Front Page, he stated erroneously that he was through producing plays, went to the country...
...abdicating heavyweight champion in their homely adoration, George White and others have decided to honor Shakespeare in the only way they know, with naked nymphs and syncopated madrigals. White's notion is a "modern musical version of Romeo and Juliet" but last week, rendered foolish by the astonishing success of his Scandals, he forgot about Shakespeare and said that he was going into the talking movie business. He was tired of soothing temperamental stars...
...Ladder which has been holding forth so long and so unprofitably on the probabilities of reincarnation. Its now famed producer, Edgar B. Davis, oil-tycoon and philanthropist, last week issued a statement saying that he would withdraw the play since it did not seem to be a success...
Author Warshow's book is a faithful ledger of the men and properties Jay Gould bought, and those he sold. It achieves a triumphant balance. It is a record of almost unbroken success. A vast speculator, Jay Gould consistently preserved and increased his fortune, died the richest man of his time. Even a measure of happiness was not denied him. From his last sickbed he could look out at his beloved orchids (8,000) and azaleas (2,000). A devoted family watched over him. And if his stocks soared in relief when his sinister influence finally passed from Wall...