Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hillyer turned from poetry to novel writing last year, and the success of his first book has encouraged him to continue as a novelist. Critics acclaimed "Riverhead" one of the finest novels of the year...
Since the "First Experiment in International Living" last summer was such a success, a discussion with colored pictures will be held tonight at 7 o'clock in the Junior Common Room of Eliot House concerning another trip abroad this year. A group of American men and women, principally students, will leave New York late in June for a trip through either France or Germany...
Most attractive ingredient in Forty-Second Street is just what you might not expect-Ruby Keeler (Mrs. Al Jolson), who failed to make a Broadway success in her own right because her voice was too small and who was persuaded to make her cinema début in this picture because she has pretty legs and can tap dance. Ruby Keeler's utter inability to act is far more appropriate to her rôle than any feigned incompetence could possibly be. It gives Forty-Second Street a charm which the efforts of the rest of the cast-George...
...enemy to his country who sets Capital against Labor. . . . Even if a rich man's son retains his father's money he cannot know the best things in life. . . . We must know what the world needs first and then invest ourselves to supply that need, and success is almost certain...
...Neither interest in Soprano Leider nor Baritone Tibbett's success in Emperor Jones (TIME, Jan. 16) has been enough to keep the Metropolitan out of the financial plight in which it found itself last spring. Despite reduced salaries and a shortened season a $400,000 deficit had directors wondering last week whether to disband or attempt drastic reorganization. Most credible rumor: a twelve weeks' season in New York might be combined with visits to other cities which would be called upon for backing. Louis Eckstein, Ravinia's patron and newest of the Metropolitan's directors, would...