Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merely laughing at the great, defenseless, adolescent industry. There is a Ramone Ramon (pronounced Ramone Ramone, John C. Develin, '38), who is instrumental in a complete collegiate flop along the lines of the complete collegiate flops with which Hollywood periodically inflicts us. There is also a Llewellyn Flushingale, producer (Benjamin F. Dillingham, '39), who is as poetically illiterate, as pompously ignorant, and as, madly lavish, as movie producers are commonly known to be. But this is only a beginning. Somebody is made to ask, "Who is Franklin Roosevelt? Chief Justice?" and there you have a sample of the political satire...
...could pass sentence there. The woman lay on her back, arms folded over her chest, breathing slowly, her lips twitching. Apparently Helen Love was not only unaware of Judge Smith, but of a score of doctors, lawyers, jailers, reporters, photographers gathered in her cell. Dr. Benjamin Blank, jail physician, told the judge that Mrs. Love's condition was "mental," but that she was not "insane." Nevertheless, Judge Smith took a look at the sleeping prisoner, declared: "The court doubts the sanity of the defendant." Therewith he postponed sentence until three more psychiatrists could pass on Helen Love...
Vladimir Shavitch is a naturalized U. S. citizen who used to conduct the Syracuse (N. Y.) Symphony. Even then he was full of plans for blending "canned" music with living singers. Benjamin Adler, a Manhattan cotton broker, backed him when in 1933 he put on Carmen in New York. In that production Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel sang against an orchestra & chorus which were recorded on discs, not film. Last summer when he was touring Russia, Shavitch persuaded the Fine Arts Commissariat to give his device a further hearing...
...Died. Benjamin Baker ("B. B.") Moeur, 67, onetime (1933-37) Governor of Arizona; at Tempe, Ariz...
Other members of the cast include Edwin R. Clarke '39, Thomas M. Cranfill 3G, Robert S. Bush '37, Louis K. Benjamin '39, Robert M. Bunker '39, Ralph T. Fuller '39, Loring T. Swaim, Jr. '39, and John H. Hewitt '38. Kenneth P. Kempton '12 is coaching and Gerald F. Else '29 is supervising the production...