Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Rolnick attributed the unprecedented success of the show to the fact that its staff has almost no Harvard members. "Radcliffe girls in the position of responsibility did their jobs the way Harvard boys have not done in past years," she explained...
...Sweet Smell of Success reeks of the putrid kingdom bounded on all four sides by Broadway and ruled by the powerful typewriter of J.J. Hunsecker, columnist for the New York Globe. It is the story of sleazy press agent Sidney Falco's ruthless attempt to follow his nose, which he doesn't hesitate to use in his dealings with J.J. It is also the story of J.J.'s equally ruthless attempts to prevent the marriage of his neurotic sister Suzy with a straight arrow guitarist, Steve Dallas, who has "integrity--acute, like indigestion...
Preceded by a delightful cartoon fantasy called The Peppermint Tree, The Sweet Smell of Success brings back to the Brattle good entertainment without subtitles, and the change is welcome...
What magnified the evening's success was the limitations on staging imposed by Sanders Theatre. The absence of a curtain, and the necessary inflexibility of drops and settings, made for a somewhat primitive production. This was especially unfortunate when it resulted in frantic and sometimes unnecessary scurrying to adjust the properties...
...Administration. Members of the foundation have stated that they do not wish to hurt the Program for Harvard College, either as a tactic or as a contingent result of their campaign. Yet even allowing that they may consider the urgency of their appeal more imperative than the success of the Program, their sincertiy about not wishing to hurt the Program is open to question when they solicit for their own fund drive...