Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Thomas Gray Bennett. 85, old-time munition maker, Civil Wartime captain of the 2gth Connecticut Volunteers, longtime (1890-1911) president of Winchester Repeating Arms Co., member of the Corporation of Yale University; after long illness, at his home in New Haven, Conn...
...fool, this shows how a clever wife handles an aging husband's infatuation with a younger woman. No new twist is given the theatrical stencil except the inept title which, proclaiming the denouement, effectively checkmates suspense. On the stage it was Misdeal, a play by Basil Woon. Belle Bennett and John Halliday are in it. Best sequence: Miss Bennett teasing the husband who wants to come home...
Prime Minister Bennett pointed with special pride to his Minister of Labor. Unemployment had been a prime campaign issue. Senator Gideon Robertson is the man who coped with unemployment for Canada the last time it grew serious...
...Bachelor Bennett, eager for work, presented himself not only as Prime Minister, but as Secretary of State for External Affairs and Minister of Finance. Others in his Cabinet, sworn in last week...
...husband for herself and gets possession of the fatherless baby by proving that she herself is the illegitimate daughter of the attorney defending the rich boy. Somehow a few moments of real dramatic power have been concocted out of this stuff and such moments are well utilized by Constance Bennett, who struggles through the rest of it as well as she can. Typical shot: the servant girl's baby in its mother's arms in court...