Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WITH the publication of "The Past Recaptured," the translation of Marcel Proust's great novel, "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu," under the title "Remembrance of Things Past," is brought to a close. As the Italian critic Umberto Morra has said, men may imitate parts of it with some success, but the whole will never again be equaled. In the present literary world where few writers and critics have been able to agree about anything, all have joined in their homage to the work of Proust...
...Lowest and blackest was the money cloud. With a deficit hanging over, Democratic credit was none too good. Twenty-five-thousand-dollar contributions like Mr. Raskob's and Vincent Astor's were few & far between. The idea of small gifts from "forgotten men" had not proved a success. One week lately it was all headquarters could do to meet its $5,000 payroll. The campaign was largely being financed on more borrowed money and the hope of victory. Republican headquarters last week boasted that its campaign cash collections had reached the million-dollar mark...
Faithless (MGM). Having tried four times without much success to find a satisfactory vehicle for Tallulah Bankhead, whose eyelids have been compared to the fat stomachs of sunburned babies,* Paramount decided to lend her to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and see what happened. Faithless will probably leave Miss Bankhead about where she was before. She has a more full-bodied role than in Thunder Below, Tarnished Lady, My Sin and The Devil and The Deep, and a better leading man (Robert Montgomery). Otherwise, the picture is in the Bankhead tradition, a solemn sexual mumbo-mumbo of wealth impoverished and beauty...
...Long inconvenienced, though not debilitated, by a diverticulum (pouch) in his esophagus, Mr. Hearst saw TIME's report of modern surgery's success with the phenomenon (TIME, March 21), despatched his Manhattan medical reporter to learn TIME's sources, finally proceeded to the Crile Clinic, had his pouch sewed shut...
Without doubt the play has suffered by the loss of Frieda Inescort, who played with the show for 25 weeks in New York, and is now engaged in the title role of Rachel Crothers' latest success "When Ladies Meet." Edith Atwater, Helen Claire, and Eric Blore, however, give a finished air to the production. Madge Kennedy would have been very much at home as Mrs. Jelliwell...