Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barometers of a new magazine's success are its subscribers and its imitators. Golden Book Magazine, started by Review of Reviews Corp. in 1925, soon had 165,000 of the first, four of the second. Designed as a sophisticated reprint of fiction classics of the past, it seemed to find a cosy niche in public fancy, had in culture-soaked Henry Wysham Lanier, son of Southern Poet Sidney Lanier, an editor well equipped to keep it there...
Such argument was a huge success but unnecessary. The judge dismissed complaints against the four on the ground they were improperly drawn. And before County Attorney Bollinger could prepare new ones his four polygamists vanished, presumably into Utah...
...imagination aflame with success, Dr. Carrel told a convention of the American Medical Association: "I found that permanent life outside the organism was possible. . . . The tissues actually used in human surgery, as cartilage, periosteum, skin, and aponeuroses, could easily be taken in large quantities from the fresh cadavers of fetuses and infants and preserved in vaseline and in cold storage. A supply of tissues in latent life would be constantly ready for use, and the tubes containing the tissues could even be sent in small refrigerators of the type of the thermos bottle to surgeons who need them...
...Artists to release the finished picture and last of all got together enough private capital to make it. The Private Life of Henry VIII made Laughton a superstar, launched the careers of Robert Donat, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie and Merle Oberon, caused Korda to be the most spectacular cinema success of 1933 and established the British film industry as an enterprise capable of better things than sleepy musicomedies, third-rate murder stories and "quota quickies." When Henry VIII was in production, King George visited the lot. Director Korda proudly explained that there were six British beauties in the cast...
Page Miss Glory. (Warner Bros.) On Broadway last winter this slight, satiric comedy on the lunacies of the beauty contest and advertising testimonial rackets enjoyed a modest success (TIME, Dec. 10). Eyebrows went up, however, when Warner Brothers paid $72,500, highest price in years, for the stage scripts as the first vehicle for Marion Davies under their management...