Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brother-in-Law, To the House, Premier Bennett was able to announce some good work by his brother-in-law, Canadian Minister at Washington William Duncan Herridge. In the past few weeks Major Herridge has negotiated with the State Department an agreement opening several new radio channels to Canada. During the dickering Major Herridge waxed emphatic about Canada's radio rights based on area. Contrariwise, Acting Secretary of State William R. Castle pointed out that U. S. population is 13 times that of Canada, that after all it is people, not acres, that listen. Under the agreement amicably arrived...
Caution, Though Premier Bennett promised to draft a Broadcasting Bill and present it shortly to the House for action, many a Canadian editor urged caution. Admitting "the undoubted fact that . . . the quality of the entertainment is very often poor, and the overload of advertising little short of exasperating," Montreal's Daily Star remarked that "Radio is not a necessity of life," questioned whether Canada in the present depression can afford to build an estimated $5,000,000 chain of high-power stations and switch to broadcasting of a higher type...
...Stokes, critic of the defunct New York Evening World, the libretto. In Paris Alonzo (godsgate) Elliott, the Aleman who wrote "There's a Long, Long Trail,"- is busy making an opera out of Laurence Stallings & Maxwell Anderson's riproaring What Price Glory? In Vienna Composer Robert Russell Bennett (Kansas City) will spend the summer writing music for a libretto by smart, versatile Robert A. Simon of The New Yorker. Maria Melbern, an oldtime Spanish prima donna, will be the heroine. The scene will be downtown Manhattan in the early 19th Century...
STROKE OF LUCK; DREAM OF DESTINY ? Arnold Bennett ? Doubleday...
...novels, one short, one unfinished, make up late Author Bennett's book. The two heroines, who outclass the heroes, are actresses. Both plots are rather theatrically professional, in Author Bennett's later, lighter style. Handled with ambidextrous ease, these somewhat inconsequential stories will barely satisfy serious-minded Bennett fans, but his reputation can stand the strain...