Word: successful
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Miss Cornell and her husband shot for the stars when they put this work on their always ambitious schedule. "Antony" has never been a success other than artistically, and the acting and staging problems it presents are brutal. The episodic nature of the action, the impossibility of getting across where or when many of the play's 42 scenes take place, and the sublety of the great character-creations all make the staging of the piece tremendously difficult...
Jerome T. Kilty '50, who takes the role of King Richard, has contributed heavily to the expected success of the production. In addition to the 40 pounds of padding and beard he carried last fall as Falstaff in Henry IV, he has sacrificed 17 pounds of his own flesh by concentrated diet and exercise for his new part...
...Selznick : Streetcar was her first Broadway production (her Heartsong was a pre-Broadway flop). This clinched the fact that the daughter of Cinemogul L. B. Mayer who is also sister-in-law of Cinemogul William Goetz and ex-wife of Cinemogul David O. Selznick, had at last made a success in show business that she could call...
Last week the Theatre Guild gave the old girl a well-deserved birthday party. The Guild, almost broke when it backed Oklahoma!, owes much of its present position as the most prosperous showmaker on Broadway to the success of this show. A lot of people at the party also owed plenty to the birthday girl. For Choreographer Agnes de Mille and for Dick Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, she had set off a firecracker-string of Broadway successes. She had helped boost many of her onetime players (notably Celeste Holm, Joan McCracken, Bambi Linn, Mary Hatcher, Howard Da Silva, Pamela Britton...
...conceded that it was possible the College might raise an additional $1000 in the next few days, but maintained that the rest of the University held the success or failure of the drive in its power...