Word: successful
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...Goodnow has directed several past productions of the club; among them "B.J. One," "Circumstantial Evidence," and another Milne play, "Success." He is well known locally for his work at the Copley Theatre and The Stagers. He attained nationwide distinction by his direction of the Barnstormers, a New Hampshire summer theatre group. His most recent work in Cambridge was the Radcliffe production of "Wuthering Heights" last spring...
...internationally-owned Mexican Eagle Oil Co., a $35,000,000 affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell. For the past three years a Mexican company called Commercial Petroleum, whose chief asset is its story that it has the rights to a valuable Eagle oil field, has been suing Eagle with great success in the Mexican courts. Appealing last month to the Supreme Court, Eagle was obliged to put up a bond of approximately $10,000,000, winner take all. Eagle chose London's Midland Bank as a safe place for this huge stake, the largest cash bond in Mexican history. Last...
Carnival (Columbia ). Encouraged by the success of Shirley Temple and the requirements of the Legion of Decency, Hollywood producers have recently conducted unprecedented raids on U. S. nurseries and cradles. In the past year, Baby LeRoy (It's a Gift), Frankie Thomas (Wednesday's Child), Georgie Breakstone (No Greater Glory), Jane Withers (Bright Eyes), Baby Jane (Imitation of Life), David Holt (You Belong to Me), Virginia Weidler (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch), Freddie Bartholomew (David Copperfield) have earned high-bracket incomes which will cease before they reach their adolescence. Carnival introduces the first baby-carriage Booth...
Rain, the tale of a conflict between a chippy and the Church on a South Sea island, was the dramatic success of 1922. Its profanity, its treatment of the problem of "sex-starvation," its revelations on the Freudian significance of dreams about "the mountains of Nebraska" titivated the Harding era. The late Jeanne Eagels played Sadie Thompson, the raffish trollop, up to the hilt, and after the play had run two years on Broadway she was established as one of the U. S. theatre's legendary great...
...third-rate musical show, whose pretty leading lady is his fiancee. They are too poor to get married, are too idealistic to do anything else. When his mother is killed in a traffic accident, Julian finds himself saddled with her fearful secret. He leaves the show, makes a success with his own music, tries to forget his inamorata in the crescendo of his new life. But the tempo rapidly gets too fast for him; the surrealist dream in which he finds himself becomes a nightmare. Too late he is taken to the refuge of an asylum. The attic has given...