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Carl Lammle Jr, Head of Production at Universal, had been able to score a success with Dracula by buying the rights to Deane’s stage play of Dracula adapted for America by John L. Balderson, so as a way of obtaining the rights and freeing up contracted Frankenstein director James Whale, Lammle Jr bought an unproduced stage adaptation of Webling’s Frankenstein play to serve as the foundation on which to build a new version of the Creature for American audiences.

It can be tempting to reach for real innovation, hoping to score a success like Apple’s iPhone — a product launch so risky that Steve Jobs’ test model was still randomly shutting down on the last day of rehearsals, giving its engineers panic attacks.

As with most playwrights who score a success the first time out, Povod was hammered by reviewers for his next effort, La Puta Vida, a trio of one-acts depicting sexual depravity and family murder.

His secret is that he remains a child inside, which enables him to score a success in the toy business, then with a fetching co- worker, who falls in love with a man who is a boy trying to act like a man.

At only one point did the Spanish troops score a success.