Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing succeeds quite like a Broadway success; but when playwrights really clean up it is by selling their smash hits to Hollywood. In 1939 Hollywood paid almost $1,000,000 for 17 Broadway plays. In the first two months of 1940 it paid about half that for five. But though plays are selling faster and for generally higher prices this year than last, most of Broadway's fanciest merchandise is still on the counter...
...early days of the talkies, she clicked as one of the few who knew how to talk. There she was as much typed for fallen women roles (Madame X, Once a Lady, Frisco Jenny) as she had been for sweet young things on Broadway. After her great cinema success, Dodsworth, she deserted Hollywood for foreign studios, early last year returned...
...dangerous rut of auction room impressionism, a frailty common among many artists who are painting today. Her piece entitled "Pines And Snow," contains a definite Corot-ish tendency; and Miss Mackay has, perhaps unconsciously, adapted Corot's facility for painting early morning landscapes in her won subject matter with success...
...Poon men are grinds of the first water, probably none of them could tear themselves out of the bowels of Widener long enough to whip out to the West and the arms of La Sheridan. Hence on her shapely shoulders rests the responsibility of showing the shining light of success to the benighted dramatic critic of the Poon in particular and the student body in general...
United States neutrality is today a very different thing from the policy we tried to maintain in 1914. It rests on a new foundation, and requires new methods to keep it in running order. In many ways it is better kind of neutrality, but its success depends on our learning how to handle the new problems that it will raise, problems for which 1914 can give no precedent or provide no experience. America is like a child with a brand new shiny tool, who has yet to prove his ability...