History of the Encyclopædia Britannica the criteria by which the articles were sorted were not obvious even to scholars, despite Dr. Adler's claims that the sorting followed naturally from the "Propædia's" outline of all knowledge. In 1985, the "Britannica" responded to reader requests by restoring the index as a two-volume set. The number of topics indexed by the "Britannica" has fluctuated from 500,000 (1985, the same as in 1954) to 400,000 (1989,1991) to 700,000 in the current 2007 print version. Presumably, this recent increase reflects the introduction of efficient electronic indexing, since the size of the encyclopedia has remained nearly constant at approximately 40 million
How to Be Very, Very Popular to stand out in their stage costumes and then the trouble begins. "How to Be Very, Very Popular" was the third adaptation derived from the 1933 novel "She Loves Me Not" by Edward Hope. The novel was first made into the 1934 Paramount comedy "She Loves Me Not" which starred Miriam Hopkins as Curly Flagg and co-starred Bing Crosby. That was then remade as "True to the Army" for Paramount in 1942. However "How to Be Very, Very Popular" was based on the Broadway play of the same name by Howard Lindsay which was adapted from the original Edward Hope