Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mine. Behind this ghastly title, there lurks a film of gold. It is another of Booth Tarkington's yarns of youth. He has somehow managed to preserve his peculiar humorous charm in strips of celluloid. Ben Alexander makes the various boyhood adventures pathetic, amusing, sincere...
MASQUERADE-Ben Ray Redman- Me Bride ($1.50). An interesting young critic who is one of the best translators we have collects his verse. Influence of T. S. Eliot, influence of sonnets, classic and modern, some satire, pleasingly keen, capability, technique, promise, no great originality, a mind that has not quite found itself, a voice a little too fond of the accent of other poetic voices. But still, capability, technique, promise-no more unusual promise than in the case of several others, but indubitably present nevertheless...
...President delivered by radio a tribute to President Harding, likening the kindly spirit of the late President to the great virtue of Abon Ben Adam who loved his fellow men, and concluding: "We may well consider by what means we can show our appreciation and by what method we can best enshrine his memory...
...Ben Hecht, novelist, playwright: "Charged with sending obscene matter throught the mails, Wallace Smith (illustrator) and I will go on trial Feb. 4 before Judge W. C. Lindley, of Chicago. The name of the book which caused us trouble is Fantazius Mallare...
There is one thing which the Theatre Guild can be trusted to do well; that is, casting. Jacob Ben Ami and Winifred Lenihan (who did well as Anne Hathaway in Will Shakespeare) offer two performances as fine as anything in the current Theatre. Masterly interpretations in minor parts are supplied by favorite players of many Guild productions, viz.: Dudley Digges, Henry Travers, Helen Westley...