Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office behind the door is modest, unostentatious, paneled in dark oak. Wallis spends 12 to 14 hours a day in it. Outside is a lounge resembling a small cocktail bar where daily waits a long succession of writers, supervisors, agents and technicians for decisive two-or three-minute interviews. Wallis checks every budget, red-penciling items he thinks too high. Models of every important set are carried in to be demonstrated to him. The mild, incessant hum of well-routined activity is occasionally broken by stormy story conferences. Producer Wallis may reject other men's ideas but he rarely...
...personally don't feel the slightest doubt about my own election or the success of the entire Republican state and national ticket," declared Haigis. New England has been safe G.O.P. territory ever since 1934, he feels. The real battleground is in Pennsylvania and the states west as far as Illinois. New York he considers as virtually in the Landon column...
Harvard Garden Grill--You've seen those chickens roasting on spits in the window. Go in and try one, you'll find it well worth while. Preface that with a few cocktails and the game will be a success...
Columbia's It Happened One Night, which was the work of Writer Robert Riskin and Director Frank Capra, proved to the industry that production cost is not indispensable to box-office success. Adventure in Manhattan, which is not the work of Writer Robert Riskin and Director Frank Capra, may conceivably prove to the producers of It Happened One Night that box-office success is not necessarily the reward of second-hand whimsey...
Suggesting little of its author's cosmopolitan experience and business success, The Tallons reaches its climax when Myrtle learns that she can capture Jim Tallon's attention by making fun of his brother's love for her. To buy relief from her mockery of Andrew, Jim is attentive to her, grows more entangled, eventually marries her. But as he watches her with his brother he begins to believe that they have both tricked him, becomes insanely jealous of a woman he does not love, plunges into wild dissipation, beats his wife until his confusions are ended when...