Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Corpses, when eminently newsworthy, will continue to find a place in TIME.-ED. Stomach Pictures Sirs: Your account of the ''stomach camera" [TIME, April 16] was interesting, but incomplete. I fully expected the sequel in the following week's issue. Is not the success or failure of the contrivance as newsworthy...
Twentieth Century (Columbia). This febrile saga of a journey on New York Central's crack train was a Broadway success last year (TIME, Jan. 9, 1933). Authors Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur transcribed it into cinema by thinking up new and fantastic situations, by enlarging to heroic proportions the frenzied, egomaniac character of Impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore), and by detailing the way he discovers a lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard), turns her into Lily Garland the Great Actress, bullies her and loses her to Hollywood. Thereafter Jaffe, who resembles Morris Gest, Richard Bennett, Josef von Sternberg...
...Success at Any Price (RKO) is a manual of futility, bitterness and despair, adapted from John Howard Lawson's play Success Story and designed to bludgeon home Hollywood's maxim that money is not everything. Joe Martin (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is prompted by the death of his gangster brother to leave the East Side and rise in the world. Helped by his sweetheart Sarah (Colleen Moore), he gets a job in an advertising agency. His success soon begins when with the aid of a dictionary he turns out better copy than a college-bred rival. By dint...
While no one wishes anything but success to the publicans whose duty it is to see that no liquor taxes go uncollected, the program of the A.T.U. smacks of nothing so much as simple faith in Pussyfoot Johnson's lamented Prohibition system: the use of crude strong-arm tactics as the remedy for basic ills. Bootlegging is admittedly profitable because liquor is scarce and taxes thereon out of all proportion to the value of the commodity. Yet not only does the A.T.U. plan to keep taxes at existing skyscraper levels, but by wiping out illegitimate distilleries, it will also reduce...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee held last night in the Union, basketball was abolished as an intercollegiate sport in Harvard College. It is generally understood that such a decision was reached on account of the ill-success of the sport at Harvard . . . and the fact that, as all indoor sport, it is not considered physically beneficial...