Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr.). Suspected of intending a campaign of "star-raiding,'' Producer Zanuck has so far managed to borrow or buy in the open market all the talent he has needed. On Twentieth Century's current payroll are: Constance Bennett, Loretta Young, George Arliss, Constance Cummings, George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Sally Blane. Tullio Carminati. Forthcoming Twentieth Century pictures: Broadway Through a Keyhole, Moulin Rouge, Advice to the Lovelorn, House of Rothschild, Gentlemen, the King!, The Great Barnum...
Hold Your Horses (libretto by Russel Grouse & Corey Ford; music & lyrics by Russell Bennett, Robert A. Simon, Owen Murphy). ''The locale of this comedy is New York City at the turn of the Century," says a program note by Messrs. Grouse & Ford. "If any member of the audience can detect the slightest error in atmosphere or historical data, the authors would be greatly obliged if he would please keep his mouth shut about it." It would be more to the point if Author Grouse (It Seems Like Yesterday, Mr. Currier & Mr. Ives) and Funnyman Ford should defy their...
Still in doubt until the end of last week was the outcome of the James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race (TIME, Sept. 11). By virtue of landing methodically at Branford, Conn., 750 mi. from Chicago, Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, pilot of the Navy bag and winner of last year's race from Basle, Switzerland, was far in the lead. Then out of the wilds of Quebec, bearded and exhausted, trudged the Polish entrants, Captain Francizek Hynek and Lieut. Zbigniev Burzynski. They had descended about 102 mi. northeast of Rivére Á. Pierre, followed moose paths...
Everybody feared that another missing bag, the Goodyear XI carrying Frank A. Trotter and Ward Tunte Van Orman, might have been blown into the Atlantic. For Pilot Van Orman, champion of two Bennett races and a veteran of many others, it would not have been strange to find himself at sea. Once in a European race he was carried out in the dead of night, signaled a passing steamer with a flashlight, alighted safely on deck...
...saying that they were following the line south. Finding the note the lineman hurried after, found them huddled in a shanty, their clothes shredded and shoes worn through, wretched with ptomaine poisoning from a can of beans. Few hours later the Polish team knew that they would carry the Bennett Cup back to Warsaw...