Word: beane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bunker Bean (RKO). Admirers of Harry Leon Wilson's famed Merton of the Movies will find in Wilson's Bunker Bean another introvert so thoroughly frustrated that his past neglect by picturemakers seems inexplicable. Bean (Owen Davis Jr.) is a male secretary who spends evenings typing, gratis, a fellow-roomer's treatise on reincarnation. Gathering from this work that a man's success depends on knowing what he was in past incarnations, Bean consults a seeress who tells him he was Napoleon Bonaparte. To live up to his astral personality, Bean buys a loud checked costume...
When his behavior has unfavorable reactions, he goes back to the seeress, who creates a new past for him as Ram-Tah, Egyptian king. Possession of his ancestor's shriveled mummy further restores Bean's confidence. Marriage to Mary and the sale of an airplane patent, following the destruction of the mummy, then convince Bean that his deeds are his own instead...
Possibly because of its unimportant cast and modest aspirations, Bunker Bean is practically perfect hot-weather entertainment...
Caleb Foote is chairman of the Freshman Reviews Committee handling this work and other members are Samuel Abelow, Robert Bean, Robert M. Coquillette, Warrick Elrod, Richard Sullivan and James Tobin...
...sale "The Beeches," where she and the 30th President lived after they left the White House. Some of the household furnishings she put in storage. Last week she was traveling in Europe when the residue odds & ends were put up at auction in a Northampton gymnasium. Auctioneer George Howard Bean had sent engraved circulars to about 1,500 clients, announcing that each of the 400 items of Coolidgeana offered would be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Only 400 bidders showed up for the auction. Dampened, Auctioneer Bean clambered to his dais, banged a gavel, stuck out a brawny...