Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criterion by which the success of a play is to be judged is the degree to which it fulfills its pretensions, then "The Perfumed Lady" must be adjudged an eminently successful play. It sets out to be a pleasant light comedy, and in no place is this aim forgotten. The result is a play in which the dialogue is amusing, the plot well-conceived, and the characters admirably drawn. Precisely because it does not attempt too much, "The Perfumed Lady" accomplishes a great deal...
Such questions as these the Weather Bureau has been trying to answer over since its inception. As yet it has met with little success. George II. Noyes '97, senior meteorologist of the Boston office of the United States Weather Bureau, can trace the path of a storm with surprising accuracy but is forced to confess ignorance when asked why this winter has been so unusually severe. However, it is interesting to delve into the history of an individual storm such as the blizzard which has plagued Bostonians yesterday and today...
...failure of 'Jezebel,' but that will not affect my plans in the least. No, there is not much difference in technique between acting for the stage and for the screen. Lionel Barrymore and Holen Hayes are two outstanding examples of people who can do both with equal success. It does make a great difference, though, to have your audience before you. You get a great kick out of watching their response. I have noticed that on rainy nights it is often harder to make people laugh. No, Boston audiences are not very different from any others. Sometimes they...
...long table, two incredibly battered desks, a telephone booth and a chipped enamel cuspidor make up its office equipment. Around the walls are photographs of unidentified prizefighters and film actresses, a framed obituary of Variety's late Slangster Jack Conway, a yellowed clipping of a newspaper sermon entitled "Success," a picture of a nude dancer with a large ostrich-plume fan, inscribed: ''To the reporters of West Side Court, gratefully and sincerely, Sally Rand...
...Fiddle (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A Broadway success of two years ago, this musicomedy slides neatly into cinema. Set in Brussels and Paris, it is sleek, plausible, sentimental. An operetta composer (Ramon Novarro) meets, loves and teams up with a U. S. girl (Jeanette MacDonald) who also writes songs. A manager (Frank Morgan) likes Novarro's tunes but eyes the girl with more relish. He publishes her song, "The Night is Made for Love," the success of which enables MacDonald and Novarro to live in a glittering Paris flat. But Novarro, producing nothing himself, returns to Brussels in gloom. Miss...