Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brokerage house of deCoppet & Doremus is famed for other things than quick and accurate execution of customers' orders. Some of its partners' cultural adventures are as well-known as their business deals. Last week dapper Rowland Stebbins, Broadway's most successful stage "angel" for several seasons, announced he would put a stake back in Wall Street, become a special partner in deCoppet & Doremus,* his old firm. When he retired in 1929 to produce plays, Rowland Stebbins had been with the firm 23 years, twelve as a general partner. Before that he was an engineer until his cousin, the late Edward...
...unpretentious Broadway office Producer Stebbins, meticulously neat and smartly dressed, enjoys recalling his famed success. His grey eyes sparkled and his urbanity was undisturbed last week when he admitted that Laurence Rivers, Inc. had just closed a new play on the road, would have no further production plans until he found another worthy manuscript. Producer Stebbins will not return to being Broker Stebbins. His special partnership in deCoppet & Doremus is largely a matter of capital invested there. His main interest will still be Broadway, his hobby music...
Ousted Mr. Lyons and his friend Mr. Fenton dramatically broke with Premier Scullin, quit his Labor Party and rushed off to achieve remarkable success in winning supporters from Australia's old guard conservative politicians for what they christened the "United Australia Party...
Tonight or Never (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn). Critics who feel that the cinema should be an independent medium are discouraged because an overwhelming majority of the best talkies are reproductions of successful plays or novels. Tonight or Never is a case in point. The cast-with the exception of Alison Skipworth, Gloria Swanson and Boris Karloff, Frankenstein's monster, who herein plays a waiter-is the one which made the play a success in Manhattan when it was produced by the late David Belasco. The cinema, directed by Mervyn Leroy, differs from Mr. Belasco's production mainly...
...astounding success Ballyhoo opened the gates to a flood of imitators intent upon outdoing it in bawdry alone. Result: on newsstands of the land last week appeared two new magazines, "Aw Nerts!" and Slapstick which, with other recent offerings (Tickle-Me-Too, Hooey) comprise as vile a mess of reading as has ever been put on sale...