Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he had finished playing the studies and a less effective fox trot, Iturbi pointed out a tall blond man with a foxlike face sitting in a box. Robert Russell Bennett stood up and, for one of the rare times since he stopped playing every instrument in a boys' band in Freeman, Mo., faced an audience. In Manhattan for 13 years Russell Bennett has practised his trade behind scenes. He works for Harms, the music-publishers. When a songwriter like Jerome Kern or George Gershwin wants to put on a show he takes his tunes to Harms for Russell...
...Bennett's clients are aware that his smart variations, his rich counterpoint, will do wonders for the simplest song, but until lately none of them bothered to put his name on the program. They changed their ways when serious musicians started praising his talent. The fact that Bennett can sit down at a drawing board, turn out 80 pages of orchestration a day while his wife reads to him or plays the radio, will seem less significant to laymen than a list of the current shows he has had a hand in. He prepared most of the scores...
...obvious idea in an obvious way. Since the obvious idea is one which cinema producers have overlooked, and since it is handled with skill and enthusiasm, If I Had a Million gives the impression of being a startlingly original picture as well as clever and interesting. John Glidden (Richard Bennett) is a crusty millionaire, infuriated by the avarice and incompetence of the persons who expect to inherit his money. Instead of making a will he decides to distribute his fortune, $1,000,000 at a time, to persons selected at random from the telephone directory. The first million goes...
...Million and 16 Paramount writers took part in what must have been the highly amusing game of writing it. As fodder for the cinema public, If I Had a Million has the disadvantage of lacking sustained suspense. This may prevent it from starting a cycle. Good shot : Mr. Bennett gasping with fury when, picking up a telephone book to start his scheme, he happens first on the name of John D. Rockefeller...
Exploded Canada's rich, pious, bachelor Premier Richard Bedford Bennett when Halifax newshawks on the S. S. Georgic's gangplank asked if he were contemplating marriage: "The impertinence of the Press is amazing! Only a few days ago a newspaperman rang me up while I was at breakfast to ask me whether it was true I had been married that morning. Does it look as if I had been married, when I am sailing for England...