Word: benita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...master. He fits perfectly into the background of Rebecca door-ways and flying cupids. His amorous advisees are suitably unsubtle. Pamela Ostrer is distinctively beautiful in her part as Suss's daughter, but Cedric Hardwick is somewhat disappointing as the rabbi Gabriel. The only other character of importance is Benita Hume, who plays the levitous and licentious Duchess...
...first six lines were penned by a 20-year-old girl named Benita. The last six were written by her identical twin sister Minnette. Benita and Minnette went to the same schools, were inseparable companions...
...family affairs of Gabriel Service (Lewis Stone), shows him to be, like most department store owners in the cinema, dignified, harassed and nepotistical. When his children seem bored with his business and times grow harsh, he decides to sell out to a chain store operator. Then his young wife (Benita Hume) leaves him, his children vouch for their interest in the store and he meets old Benton eating his lunch in a little graveyard back of Service's employes' entrance. Benton points out that the motto on one of the tombstones-"Be Not Afraid"- may be even better...
...Until last week it was not known that the Association had given Commissioner Mulrooney $15,000 to purchase information leading to the arrest and trial of Harry Stein and Samuel Greenberg for the murder of notorious Benita Franklin Bischoff (Vivian Gordon). Stein and Greenberg were subsequently acquitted (TIME, July 27). The Association gave the money, but kept quiet about it, because the Bischoff murder for a time cast a shadow over the Police Department...
...formal gathering of city officials, including Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, trouped down to police headquarters fortnight ago to IK; on hand when Commissioner Mulrooney an nounced that one Harry Schlitten had confessed lo driving the car in which one Harry Stein had strangled Benita Franklin Bischoff. Arrested two months ago (TIME, April 20), Stein's ap parent motive was robbery. With happy satis faction, said Mayor Walker: "Commissioner, have you any newspapers here for the first few days after the murder? ... I think in justice to the Commissioner and the department that these statements . . . that the police...