Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affair. It was inevitable that the production should stand or fall according to the ability of the central character. In portraying on the scren a portion of the life of the famous feminine financier, Hettie Green, May Robson has created a characterization which not only set the seal of success on the picture, but has entitled it to be ranked high among the yearly output of Hollywood...
...major on his shoulders, clapped a tin helmet on his head and sent him to the front to do sketches of the troops and large oil portraits of the generals. It was this series of War pictures that won him his knighthood in 1918. But beside the successful portrait painter there was another Billy Orpen. His soul revolted frequently at painting the smug faces of Success. He never lost his fondness for Gypsies and the color of the West of Ireland. He made brilliant little landscapes. He would sneak away from his job at the Versailles Peace Conference to paint...
...typists would not, like those of her colleagues, be blurred and unintelligible. She gave up her job to act with the Provincetown Players. After experience in stock companies, she got the lead role in The Trial of Mary Dugan. Her first picture, Paris Bound, was an immediate, brilliant success. Now she has a $6,000-a-week contract, is the only cinemactress in Hollywood who has had three of her pictures given what are known as "gala world premieres." For her birthday two months ago, her husband, Cinemactor Harry Bannister, gave her a $35,000 play house which contains...
Grim and sordid though it may be, Payment Deferred is the most interesting, most plausible and perfectly fashioned play yet to appear this season. Producer Gilbert Miller has already lined his pockets with the money Payment Deferred made in London in the early summer. For the play's success he has chiefly to thank Actor Charles Laughton, Mr. Marble...
...Glasgow tenement, he went to the U. S. at 15 seeking his fortune, returned when he had saved $500. He had worked in a grocery shop in New York, saw possibilities in the U. S. way of displaying and selling green groceries. His first shop in Glasgow was a success, with Proprietor Lipton behind the counter in white overalls and an apron. From the beginning he believed in advertising, kept his shop lighted at night, distributed handbills. Once in Glasgow he stopped traffic by having a sleek pig paraded through the streets bearing signs on its sides, "I am going...