Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show will be given under the auspices of the Secretary of the Union, and if the experiment proves to be a success, it will be made a weekly custom. A large undergraduate turnout would shift the location of the showing to New Lecture Hall...
...other words, Paris is primarily a job for a first-rate reporter and political analyst, and Laguerre feels that his staff has had considerable success in winnowing the real news from the political chaff that whirls through the French capital each week. A case in point was the disclosure (in TIME'S June 3, 1946 cover story on French Communist Party Boss Maurice Thorez) of the now accepted fact that there can be a split between the different Communist parties of the world over the issue of nationalism...
Writing a tour de force for the theater is in many ways a more difficult job than merely writing a play, a task Miss Gordon has twice before proved she could do. It requires both daring and discretion; the knowledge of one's boundaries is essential for its success. But most of all, the playwright needs an icon with more general appeal than Miss Gordon. She is a fine actress, very feminine and tender. She has a funny little was of running up the musical scale when she speaks, letting her voice crack, gently, half...
That night in 1942, Choreographer Agnes George de Mille got her first taste of success. Last week, when the Ballet Russe presented Rodeo again, with Agnes dancing as the Cowgirl, the boots and blue-jeans no longer seemed strange; her wistful story of a girl who could rope a steer, but not a man, had the feel of a familiar classic. One reason: Theatre Guild scouts had seen that first performance of Rodeo and persuaded Agnes to do the dance numbers for Oklahoma! Then followed One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, Allegro and this year's brilliant...
Died. Warren William (Krech), 53, stage & screen actor; of cancer of the bone marrow; in Los Angeles. An immediate success in the early talkies, he specialized at playing sophisticated villains and cultured detectives...