Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Time for Comedy (Warner Bros.) has the same title as a comedy by S. N. Behrman in which Katharine Cornell achieved a mild Broadway and cross-country success last year. While his characters lounged on soft settees gulping highballs for three acts, Behrman argued that playwrights whose talents run to comedy should stick to their typewriters in times of crisis, leave world-saving to professionals. So original was this notion that audiences gladly sat through two and a half hours of inaction...
Dance, Girl, Dance (RKO Radio) solemnly relates a jumbled account of the trials & tribulations borne by pretty showgirls. A well-turned strip-teaseuse (Lucille Ball) rooms with an earnest, apple-cheeked ballerina (Maureen O'Hara). Lucille wants money, Maureen success. Lucille winds up draped in furs and sparkling gewgaws but with no suggestion of purity. Maureen winds up with a job in the American Ballet after teary, trying weeks capering to the jibes of burlesque fans. Contrary to all Hollywood tradition, neither winds up with a man when the alcoholic playboy they both want (Louis Hay ward) is dragged...
...success in increasing the number of students who participate in the intramural program is partly due to the interest and support of letter men, Sam- boski said recently. At first Varsity and Jayvee players scorned intramural sports, but in recent years more and more of them have lent their help...
...Gordon, 145 pound Senior wingback from Brookline, received the Harlow stamp of approval Saturday afternoon in the form of a red jersey. For Gordon, the promotion represents success in a three-year fight for Varsity recognition which has carried him along the long road of House and Jayvee football...
While present findings are entirely too inadequate to make definite predictions on the success of the plan, Charles W. Oliphant and Gordon M. McCouch who have been conducting the experiments, are optimistic...