Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possession of the child, Col. Schwarzkopf lent a polite, attentive ear. Mr. Curtis described and gave the approximate position of the fishing smack on which he had supposedly interviewed the child's captors. The Coast Guard sent 39 craft and three amphibian planes to find it, with no success. His identification of the criminals by nicknames proved similarly untrustworthy. At last, early on the fifth morning after the child's body was found, he broke down and confessed that "all the information he had given was the result of his imagination and deception, as well as his desire to make...
...Banque des Reglements International-). When he stood up to report, Manhattan Banker Gates W. McGarrah, President of BIZ was seen to have eased his substantial midriff by undoing as usual the two bottom buttons of his vest. What President McGarrah had to do was to report a notable BIZ success and issue to the world an ominous warning which he hoped would produce action...
...alone in this picture and is as cheerful a villain as he can be a gloomy hero. Lil Dagover is also on view as Tsar-bait. The Hollywood technique of getting the maximum out of a gag or situation is notably lacking in Congress Dances, hence its U. S. success is doubtful. Good shots: Metternich in a darkroom reading code despatches against an illuminated glass screen; legs in the ballet; the fake Tsar doing fancy needlework, singing the "Volga Boat Song...
...make a living out of family charity until his writing began to pay. Thereafter, besides practicing journalism in Vienna, he has written some 20 books. Bambi, his first book published in America, telling the life story of a buck in the Wienerwald, was a great success. Others: The Hound of Florence, Fifteen Rabbits, Samson & Delilah...
Stroke of Luck tells of Etta Wickham-stead who, to escape poverty, took to the stage. As Ruth Ruthven she had an accidental success in a vampire's part. Producers tried to make her repeat in other plays; but, no flapper, Etta always flops. Her poverty returns, consigns her to rooms in Chelsea where she lives with her cousin, Stocky. Etta is straitlaced, but Stocky is voluptuously convex. One day Etta, returning from an employment agency unemployed, snatches a boy out of the path of Mr. Leverton's car. Flowers follow, and Mr. Leverton follows the flowers. Just when Etta...