Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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They go to bed early, the theatres start at 7:30. Henri Bernstein's Elvira is first class and a big success, though those few rich pacifists are afraid it may irritate Hitler...
...Democrats. Into the field went organizers. Their success was immediate. By last week they had formed 2,000 units of from seven to 100 workers engaged in innumerable handcraft industries-tan-mng, spinning, weaving, printing, mining, making over 300 types of articles from boots to boats, from candles to light bulbs. Indusco last week boasted 50,000 cooperating members producing at the rate of $6,000,000 (Chinese) worth of goods every month...
Suspect (by Edward Percy & Reginald Denham; produced by Douglas MacLean & Arthur J. Beckhard). Three weeks ago Playwrights Percy & Denham scored a neat success on Broadway with their horror play, Ladies in Retirement. Not only is Suspect a much weaker play, but its good points are all hand-me-downs from Ladies in Retirement...
...self-conscious balletomane could not tell a chassé from a shag. Russian ballet troupes taught him. First they were the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe; now, after complicated schisms and reorganizations, they are the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. From the beginning, much of their box-office success has been the work of one man. Fortnight ago, as the ballet season neared its end in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, that man took part in a performance of Petrouchka. A Russian greatcoat swathed his solid form, false whiskers his jowls; a fur hat veiled his glabrous dome...
...this sequel to his old-time success "The Tavern", the author tells us that he is presenting an "American Melodramatic Satire". For a scant two hours or so, the Vagabond (Mr. Cohan, if you have not divined so already) directs in entertainingly unorthodox manner a very orthodox group of stage people through the intricate contortions of a melodrama to end all melodramas. Bank robbers, policemen, governors, midgets, and fascinatingly naive young ladies put themselves completely in the hands of the Tavern's unidentified guest, and he has them caper about in the fashion most likely to please his laughing audience...