Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arranging a winter-schedule and providing facilities for coaching, the Athletic Association has done its part well. It cannot be too strongly emphasized, however, that inter-House activities of every kind depend for their success primarily on undergraduate interest. They cannot survive as hot-house products. In practice, as far as athletics are concerned, this means essentially that House captains must accept the responsibility of organizing their respective teams...
Frankenstein (Universal). Mary Wollstonecraft (Mrs. Percy Bysshe Shelley) wrote this story, supposedly to win a bet from her husband and Lord Byron. It is a grisly conceit about a young doctor who, experimenting with synthetic animation, produces a live, dangerous and somewhat human monster. Universal, encouraged by the success of Dracula to produce a series of horrific weirds, in which Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue will be next, entrusted the direction of Frankenstein to James Whale. He did it in the Grand Guignol manner, with as many queer sounds, dark corners, false faces and cellar stairs...
Last April the club rendered its annual spring play over the radio in the first broadcast in its history. The play, "B.J. One" was given over the same station with great success, but it is felt that it was not as well adapted for radio performance as the present production, since much of the play's dramatic value depended on its striking naval scenery. To facilitate the rendition and to make it easier to understand over the radio, a few minor parts will be cut out and some lines omitted...
Miss Crawford, either the restraining influences of the Hays organization or the enervation of Hollywood success affected Clark Gable. In the best scene of the picture, he hits his leading lady with an open hand. Thirty years old, he has had three wives, all older than himself. The present Mrs. Gable, whom he married twice, is 40. Every one knows that he receives more fan letters than any other male actor in Hollywood, smokes a pipe, likes horses, hopes to retire in ten years. He looks a little young for his role in Possessed but he gives a sharp, competent...
...painter, but young Jean-Louis refused to paint houses, refused to go to school. He played hooky to copy old masters in the Louvre. Degas took him up. After the Franco-German War Forain's cartoons suddenly caught on. From then until his death he was an established success...