Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mental as well as the physical aspects of Amphitryon before Alcmena would bed him. The Lunts studied the play, which they were quick to see contained one of their favorite situations, for several months before trying it out last June in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Later they took it to Baltimore, Washington and Cleveland, to whose critics the play seemed "mellow . . . exhilarating . . . sparkling . . . sagacious." To provincial Lunt-Fontanne fans, Amphitryon 38 was pretty much what the doctor ordered. Broadway was not surprised when Amphitryon 38 rode into Manhattan to find first-nighters willing to pay as high...
...copies. First issue of the 10? monthly gravure picture magazine was a 705,000 sellout, and the present 1,700,000 circulation came in generous leaps & bounds as the monthly became a fortnightly. But Look did not decide to accept advertising until three months ago when the Brothers Cowles took Ned Doyle, a wiry, 34-year-old Hibernian, from the eastern advertising managership of Cosmopolitan. Mr. Doyle was given 13 solicitors and sent to sell space, warned not to accept hard liquor, beer or objectionable patent medicine...
...enter the U. S. in the documentary film field, then had to get out and distribute it to independent exhibitors, the big companies having turned thumbs down on it, presumably because it represented government-in-the-movie-business. The River cost just short of $50,000, took a six-man crew six months on a 22,000-mile tour of the Mississippi valley. Just when the camera work seemed finished, in January, came the disastrous flood of last winter. Lorentz and his crew stayed in the flood area until Feb. 24, shot 80,000 feet of film. Only...
Died. Dr. Elie Faure, 64, French art critic and parlor anarchist, author of what many still consider the world's most authoritative History of Art; in Paris. Dr. Faure turned writer after having been educated as a physician, took twelve years, 1909-21, to publish his History...
While the world of scholars waited, the Nobel Prize committee took a quick last look at the accomplishments of Albert Szent-Györgyi. Amiable son of a once wealthy Hungarian, son-in-law of a one-time Hungarian postmaster general, as thoroughly Hungarian as paprika, this Wartime Hungarian army medical officer started, after the Armistice, to learn what happens to food in the human body. He was particularly interested in the progress of carbohydrates (starches and sugars). These enter the mouth, change into a variety of transient substances, nourish every cell in the body, leave the body with...