Word: benne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evergreen (Gaumont-British) is an adaptation of the Benn W. Levy musicomedy which charmed London audiences four years ago. It effectively introduces to U. S. cinemaddicts Jessie Matthews, a personable young actress who helped make that stage production so successful. Evergreen's general excellence in almost all departments shows that British cinemanufacturers can rival Hollywood quite as successfully in musical films as they have, during the past year, in every other field...
...marriage, divorce, and remarriage plot that made "Private Lives" such a delightfully uncertain nightmare, "Springtime for Henry" also introduces the libertine bachelor caught in the threes of "a pure love for a pure woman." There are some really excellent opportunities here for wit, satire, and unrestrained nonsense which Benn Levy utilizes to their full possibilities. Free from the elements of moral responsibility, and the philosophy of Bortrand Russell which ruin some very effective comic situations in "Cynara," this farce is not diluted with any common-sense...
...watch a jolly, wobble-headed God perform in the Theatre Guild's He this season, and having chosen to neglect Him after a brief run, Manhattan theatregoers may now witness the Devil walking the earth like a natural man. The Old Harry in the latest offering of Playwright Benn W. Levy (Springtime for Henry, Mrs. Moonlight} is none other than matinee idolized Basil Rathbone. Christened facetiously Rev. Nicholas Lucy, Mr. Rathbone has been sent among mortals by Playwright Levy to tempt them, and in so tempting to demonstrate that the practice of virtue is inescapable. "The Devil," observes Mr. Lucy...
...this is a far?and very merry?cry from the sort of thing one has grown to expect of Playwright Benn W. Levy (Mrs. Moonlight, Art & Mrs. Bottle). And his comedy is populated by four of the most pleasant players now to be seen: wide-eyed Helen Chandler (rescued from Hollywood) ; facile Leslie Banks (late of tragic Lean Harvest) ; handsome Frieda Inescort (she has toured with George Arliss); and Nigel Bruce, the funniest man to be discovered by Manhattan theatregoers since Guy Kibbee was brought to light as a mortuary supply salesman in Torch Song last year. Admired in London...
...Indian delegates, drew nearer to London. From its wireless room came stronger and stronger appeals to the Mahatma to drop his immediate grievance, represent his 270,000,000 Hindus at the Round Table. During the feverish last hours of the British Government which fell fortnight ago. William Wedgwood Benn, Secretary of State for India, insisted that Viceroy Willingdon meet with and conciliate the Mahatma. Finally, last week, the little brown man himself asked for a conference with the Viceroy. The Viceroy would not agree to the establishment of an impartial tribunal to investigate alleged breaches of the Delhi pact (TIME...