Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plays that are built for actors are only as pleasant as the actors themselves. At Keith's this week "Sin Takes A Holiday" with Constance Bennett is very pleasant indeed. The story isn't much and the supporting cast has little to do, but Miss Bennett is enough for one movie...
...pretty conventional and trivial, but when Miss Bennett is around it doesn't make much difference. It is a little difficult to place her as a simple New York stenographer during her first few days in Paris. She looked and acted as though she were born there. The dialogue as spoken by Miss Bennett is polished and, at times satirically clever, but McKenna is a bit ponderous over some of his best lines...
...goings & comings you follow Manager Orcham through his microcosmic hotel, its daily & nightly functionings. crises; from the subterranean power plant to the eighth luxurious floor. Anything, from a miscarriage to a murder, can happen there; almost everything does. Author Bennett shows how carefully set a stage the hotel guest sees; shows what hard and clever work goes on behind the scenes. After reading Imperial Palace you will see your next hotel dining room, grill room, lobby with a fresh...
...Author. For some months Author Bennett acted as house-detective for the Savoy Hotel, spying on the life of his monstrous love. Fat. sloppy-looking, with prominent teeth, hanging lower lip, a wave of hair, droopy eyes, Arnold Bennett would have been more conspicuous, not so well cast, as a maitre d'hotel...
Novelist, playwright, journalist extraordinary, Enoch Arnold Bennett, 63, is the most versatile, one of the most prolific living English writers. He has published over 50 books, more than a dozen plays. Born poor, he got little schooling, went to London at 21, became a solicitor's clerk. His first published piece was How a Bill of Costs is Drawn Up; his second appeared in the late great Yellow Book. Says he: ''I write for money." He makes a good income. Some of his books: Clayhanger (pr. "Clanger"), The Old Wives' Tale, Mr. Prohack, Riceyman Steps, The Grand Babylon Hotel, Milestones...