Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other embodies so perfectly that elusive combination of qualities-variously defined as glamour, personality or, even, color-which added to less subtle requisites makes a beautiful actress a Star. Marlene Dietrich is not so good a tragedienne as Greta Garbo. She is inferior as a fashion plate to Constance Bennett, and less potent at the box office than Shirley Temple. What they are not she is-the ultimate refinement of a rare and delicate artifact, the distilled essence of a Movie Actress. Extremely commonplace is the background of Mary Magdalene von Losch, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar...
Last week, Edward Ballard, retired, had a son a senior at Yale, a daughter in the Bennett finishing school (Millbrook, N. Y.), and he and his wife were enjoying their usual autumn holiday at Hot Springs, Ark. In a bedroom of the fashionable Arlington Hotel he met the one-time associate of his Florida days, Silver Bob Alexander. That afternoon the double zero of life's roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract...
Died. Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, 57, famed British criminal lawyer, three weeks ago named chairman of the London Court of Sessions; after collapsing at a Greyhound Racing Association dinner at the moment he was joking about his weight (252 lb.); in London. In his only (1924) campaign for Parliament, he promised to kiss each of the 16,269 women constituents of Chelmsford, was elected...
...highly funny scenes. One is the entertainment given by his fellow newshawks to Grant when he changes from a lazy reporter into an over serious city editor. They paint up the office, hire an impertinent copy boy and import a German band. Grant becomes very angry, and fires Bennett, who is the leading tease. She goes to New York and becomes engaged to the stuffed-shirt author of a book on How to be a Success...
Grant flies after her, but, despite the violent efforts of a friendly gangster, finds Bennett adamant. Disheartened and drunk he ponders what to give her as a wedding present until he remembers her love of fire-engines and thrills. Forthwith he summons to the place of marriage the firemen, the police, the riot squad, an ambulance from every hospital, an undertaker, and various electricians, street repair men, and maintenance trucks. The ensuing riot not only convinces Bennett that Grant is the right man for her, but greatly amused the critic and the rest of the audience. Grant is a superb...