Word: beane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home of the bean...
When it was built in 1912 for $500,000, the Beverly Hills Hotel sat among bean fields, overlooked a bridle path named Sunset Boulevard. There were no studio commissaries, nor even any Romanoff's, for the early Hollywood settlers to hang around in. The Beverly Hills provided a lobby with a blazing fire and a bar, and pilgrims like W. C. Fields, John Barrymore, Gene Fowler and Will Rogers came down from the hills and up from the canyons to seek their sustenance...
...hard about it), but he is a man of enough professional acumen to have signed up one of the best directors in the business, George Abbott, who for his part has had enough sense to sin up a perfect cast: Paul Ford (dad), Maureen O'Sullivan (mom), and Orson Bean (son-in-law). Do you follow...
...then, of course, in Never Late the stomach has all the lines. Maureen O'Sullivan and Orson Bean are the co-stars--lest one forget--and no mean comics they; but their only function in this play is to feed the laughs to Ford. Ford knows what to do with them, all right. Aren't you pleased? he is asked. "Oh, I'm joyous; [pause] it's just I'm so miserable...
...coast during the past month, last week wound up in California's fabled San Joaquin Valley. The visitors ogled Fred DeBenedetti's mechanical tree shaker that tumbled walnuts to the ground, stared while other mechanized arms swept up the piles of nuts. When William Machado, a bean farmer, said that he had suffered no loss at all in harvesting his crop, the Russians-who could only judge by the chaotic conditions back home-simply did not believe...