Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign of advertising and publicity for the crowd of peanut brains who disrupted Friday's meeting was nicely calculated to attract all the lunatic fringe to turn out in expectation of a royal Roman holiday. The gleeful reporting fraternity and cameramen cooperated to make the flasco a howling success. The University had given the National Students League permission to hold the meeting; it had not given such permission to the counter-demonstration. Therefore the University is utterly to blame for not instructing the Yard police to break up the clowning before it started. An assembly of African savages could...
Moor Born (by Dan Totheroh; George Bushar & John Tuerk, producers). The success of Katharine Cornell in The Barretts of Wimpole Street encouraged at least two other playwrights to turn their hands to theatrical biographies of 19th Century lady authors. A year ago there was talk of producing in the U. S. Clemence Dane's Wild Decembers, a study of the Bronte's acclaimed in London. This possibility becomes more remote now that Playwright Totheroh (Distant Drums) has gotten his own story of the three weird sisters of Haworth on the boards. There would be no use selecting...
Tender Is the Night is a story of U. S. sophisticates abroad. Fitzgerald's are introduced as a little clique sunning themselves in agreeable idleness on an as-yet-unfashionable Riviera beach. To Rosemary, a naive cinemactress resting after her first success, they seem mysteriously charming. She is grateful to be taken into their closed circle, immediately falls in love with the head man, Dick Diver. But he seems to be perfectly happy with his beautiful wife, Nicole, and their two children. Other members of the set are Abe North, a musician who no longer works...
...sincere story in "Men in White," of the young interne's struggle against the physician's code loses little of its power on the screen. Although the problem of adaptation was made easier by the comparative unimportance of the love motive, able direction is chiefly responsible for its success...
...Woodworth, we congratulate especially on the success of this concert. With the enthusiastic audience, we venture to hope that it may become an annual treat...