Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adapted, and the singing of Martha Eggerth, star of "The Unfinished Symphony", is often beautiful. The daughter of a wealthy Neapolitan, she sacrifices her love for Bellini for the sake of his career. "Italy needs geniuses," she says, and refuses to elope with him. He climbs the ladder of success, his loveliest music inspired by her memory. And when he tries to write an opera based on hate, to prove his independence of her the audiences unpolitely reply with catcalls. At the last minute, unknown to him, she substitutes a song lie had written for her. The result is that...
Quin Hanna (Lee Tracy) has driven himself into the mayorality of a small New England town. Brilliant, forceful, a man of action and success he has also driven himself up the social scale to marriage with Hope Blake (Julie Haydon). Hope is madly in love with Hanna but he cannot summon a similar depth of affection for her. He is too absorbed in his own success, too completely egocentric to be capable of love even towards a girl whom he admires and respects as much as he does Hope. Kate Hastings and Sam Biddle, old journalist associates of Hanna realize...
...maintains a quietly beautiful emotional intensity which charms and excites. Le Tracy is admirably cast as the dynamic, self seeking Hanna is thoroughly at home and given a rousingly god performance in the Tracy manner. Jean Dixon who has lately been endearing herself to cinema fans scores a highly successful performance setting off her dry sophistication with an array of the very best lines. Mr. Hopkins, we think has another success on his hands...
...Desert, ran to only 130,000 words, the legend grew that the expurgated material contained frightful disclosures, savage criticisms of British generals, brutal accounts of barbaric warfare, clarification of Lawrence's misogyny and of his ostentatious distaste for the publicity he avoided with an appalling lack of success...
...Arab revolt that Lawrence directed, and for whose success he received credit, was in the making long before he arrived in Arabia. When Lawrence, in order to get to Arabia, engineered his release from work in the intelligence service in Cairo, the Arabian revolt had prematurely broken out, was hampered by lack of direction, lack of leadership, lack of military experience. These factors Lawrence and his associates supplied. Choosing Feisal, grave, tactful son of the Sherif of Mecca, as the best of the Arab leaders, Lawrence developed tactics that his friend Liddell Hart, English military expert, later characterized as those...