Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canes. But these are minor causes for the Repertory's success. The major significance of the theatre is that it proves, like a corollary to the Theatre Guild, that fine dramatic art treated studiously, "artistically," is appreciated in Manhattan.? And though Miss Le Gallienne's chief associates?Jacob Ben-Ami, Josephine Hutchinson, Leona Roberts, Egon Brecher and Paul Leyssac?would merit headlines anywhere, major credit for a serious venture which is one of Manhattan's greatest civic virtues, which has won all but the crustiest critics, must inevitably be Eva Le Gallienne's. At 30 she has become...
Billet Doux, 8-year-old pony gelding owned by Ben R. Meyer of Beverly Hills, jauntily won the single harness class for horses under 13.2 hands...
Eielson to the Rescue. Icebound off Cape North, Siberia and 500 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska, were two ships containing 14 men and a maid, also $1,000,000 worth of white fox, squirrel and other Siberian furs. At Fairbanks was Carl Ben Eielson, Arctic and Antarctic flyer, now general manager of Alaskan Airways. To the rescue flew he, took off the furs and the humans...
First team: ends, Yudicky of Dartmouth and Barres of Yale; tackles, Perry of Army and Barrett of Harvard; guards, Bromberg of Dartmouth and Steele of Florida: center, Ben Ticknor of Harvard; quarterback, Marsters of Dartmouth; halfbacks, Booth of Yale and Cagle of Army; fullback, Murrel of Army...
Climax of the celebration was the pageant "The Making of Nebraska" at Ak-Sar-Ben field with 1.300 performers. It began at the geological beginning. Several men carrying torches represented volcanoes and lava. Groups of maidens took the parts of stars, seas, land, flowers. Girls in white garments were the Glacier. Girls in bulky costumes typified Solid Land. In Act II a band of Sioux chased a band of Pawnees, then performed a Sun Dance. Next came Spanish conquistadors, French Jesuits, Scouts Lewis and Clark, frontiersmen, Stephen A. Douglas. To end the pageant all joined in singing "The Star-Spangled...