Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Horse Fever (by Eugene Conrad, Zac & Ruby Gabel; produced by Alex Yokel). A poor attempt by Producer Yokel to repeat the success of Three Men on a Horse, this preposterous comedy is like one of the more demented comic strips come to life. It is the story of a family that inherits a race horse which won't start with the rest of the field. Unfortunately the family has an inventive cousin who has already cluttered up the house with a shoe-shining device that pops out of the wall, a musical chair that plays when rocked, a rattrap...
...first store a success, Jim quickly opened two more, bought a warehouse. But the warehouse cut a profitable ten-a-year turnover to a dubious five. When the depression caught Jim, he soberly explained: "We put on long pants before we had short ones." He rounded up a group of U. S. and Brazilian rich men, reorganized in 1932. After the reshuffle his two pals were out, a Brazilian was president, Jim technical manager-and the largest stockholder. The new company soon pulled out of the red, paid its first dividend (2%) in 1934. And 10,000 shares of Lojas...
...Johns-Manville's Lewis H. Brown attributes his success to a lesson his father gave him about peeling potatoes ("Just do one potato at a time...
...atmosphere, an elusive quality for movies. He keeps his audience strained with a most effective dramatic time bomb - the constant feeling that something very bad is about to occur. Bette Davis helps with a display of psychopathic evil as repulsive as her Mildred in that other Somerset Maugham cinema success, Of Human Bondage. Herbert Marshall, more limber than usual, behaves appropriately for a true-blue British colonial. James Stephenson, hitherto confined to furnishing British background, gives the part of the lawyer a distinguished, neatly devised piece of acting...
...first case ever handled by the Bureau was that of a scrubwoman who shark, a case which, the Bureau likes to point out, resulted in the mortgage shark's being run out of the city. The success of the Bureau hasn't diminished appreciably, however, since that time, for of the 76 cases taken into court last year, favorable verdicts were returned in 67 of them...