Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that of the daily newspaper, and an impartiality whose scope and influence far exceed the best local press organs. At the bottom of this policy of non-partisanship lies the Federal Communications Commission, a body, which, if its present principles are maintained permanently, will do more for the success of democratic government than any possible mechanical reform...
...money." Free Press workers make a big thing of Eddie Guest's camaraderie and intimacy with the staff. He still has a desk in the office and, according to office gossip, will probably run the paper some day when aging Owner Edward Douglas Stair retires, His own success still bewilders him a little. Modestly says he: "I do the same kind of jingles that James Whitcomb Riley used o write. ... All he tried to do was to be sincere. . . . The only thing I contributed was a little time which I gambled when I came home from...
...Prisoner of Shark Island, Dr. Mudd is Warner Baxter, rolling his eyes with suitable agony at the world's injustice. Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall...
...laid up too, was made a national shrine. An unpretentious hero, as Chief of the General Staff he plodded on as he always had. Even naval men thought he had left out something or had taken a lot for granted when he thus gave away the secret of his success: "The great secret of winning a naval engagement is to have the flagship always lead the way." When he heard of a proposed statue of himself, he demurred. "It does not seem proper to me that expense should be incurred in this manner at the present time...
...with all these high-sounding recommendations, "Fellow the Fleet" is topid at best. The producers had every reason to expect that a conglomeration of the above elements would find success easy and inevitable, but there is obviously lacking the spark of inspiration, indispensable to what is really good, even in the medium of celluloid. "Follow the Fleet" is the well-timed appearance of a cut-and-dried application of a tested formula...