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Larry Heinen, Imre Toth, and Ben Batson rolled up a combined total of 16 points. With six boards in play, each contestant engaged three opponents in the round-robin play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chess Club Captures Eastern Division Title | 1/13/1960 | See Source »

...From the summer circuit come George Batson's mystery drama, Celia, with Jessie Royce Landis; The Frogs of Spring, a Manhattan comedy based on Nathaniel Benchley's New Yorker stories; and Eva Gabor in Sailor's Delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Curtain Going Up | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

Magnolia Alley (by George Batson; produced by Lester Cutler) was already, at week's end, part of Memory Lane. It set out to picture the life of a shabby-ungenteel rooming house in a Southern town. The characters included a landlady with a past and a thirst (Jessie Royce Landis); her daughter, a boxer's wife and almost anybody's woman; her adopted daughter, a rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Summons. In Seattle, Assistant Police Chief Batson recognized his own auto horn, rushed out to the street, where one very tipsy Frank Ard was sitting in the car, shouting: "Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Ramshackle Inn (by George Batson; produced by Robert Reud) brought Zasu Pitts, Hollywood's funny, fluttery fool, to Broadway on a sleeveless errand. A sort of shotgun marriage between farce and melodrama, Ramshackle Inn is lousy with murders, lacking in thrills, not very long on laughs. As a befuddled innkeeper who winds up more than a match for the villains, Actress Pitts is amusing enough, but by no means a match for the bad play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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