Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing for our paper reviews of productions as presented at Montgomery's famous old show house, the Grand Theatre. After Mrs. Owen and I had returned to the Advertiser's offices one night from witnessing a rather shabby musical comedy, which had as its only hope for success a chorus of the type-40 beautiful girls-count 'em, Mrs. Owen wrote her review. She handed her "copy" over to me to read before turning it to the city editor's desk. I have ever since remembered one paragraph, which really comprised the substance of the review...
...next. The scene of his latest presentation is laid in the Mississippi swamps, where Playwrights Harry Hamilton and Norman Foster would have you believe voodooism is still rife. Savage Rhythm has to do with a black girl named Miss Orchid, who has come home from a big theatrical success on Broadway. The Negro she chooses happens to be one her Sister Florabel is also fond of. Thereupon Florabel picks another man, an unfortunate choice because the other man's wife stabs Florabel. Then follow some of the liveliest obsequies to be seen on the stage since Porgy. Miss Orchid...
...What a ludicrous incident that was Friday! Sixteen lawyers, all good and true, facing an irate court official. . . . If sixteen efficient men of the Virginia bar . . . have no success in pleading a case, it looks like that many men might be 'hefty' enough to remove the court bodily...
...former vaudeville and circus performer, Fields in this film finds himself at a fashionable dinner of the ball bearing concern. With calm mien and steady eye he uses the aerial route to pass two eclairs from one end of a table to the other. Both land safely, and this success spurs the guest on to additional tricks reminiscent of his younger days. Throughout his performance, Fields makes more use of actions than of lines, and his acting is certainly a treat...
...success of inter-house activities largely depends on the adjustment of details, trivial in themselves but important in the mass. Especially in the arrangements which the houses make regarding sports, uniformity should be the rule. The inter-house squash competition, just begun, offers an instance of conflicting arrangements which ought to be avoided...