Word: bennetts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who expect Gracie to sing in this picture will be disappointed. Not until the last scene does she join with Woolley in a brief unprofessional warble. But the show has a smart story (from the late novelist Arnold Bennett's Buried Alive), smart acting by nearly everybody, smart handling by Director John Stahl (Back Street, The Immortal Sergeant...
Speedsters. In Seattle, Traffic Officer W. W. Crow caught up with a speeder, quizzed him, presently discovered the car had been stolen from his brother. In Westchester County, N.Y., OPA Inspector William Bennett, arrested for speeding, said he had been determining whether the law was being enforced, promptly learned that it was, paid a $15 fine...
Last week the top U.S. soil expert, Soil Conservation Director Hugh Hammond Bennett, saluted Faulkner. Bennett pointed out that some pioneering farmers (notably United Fruit Co. and some Cuban sugar-cane growers) have long used a system of cultivation like Faulkner's, called "stubble mulch." The moldboard plow, agreed Bennett, is doomed, except for some special crops and uses...
Random House's Bennett Cerf gave Lawson and Considine an advance of $7,500. (Considine asked for $5,000.) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid $100,000 for movie rights. Except for the $12,000 from Collier's, which was entirely Captain Lawson's (the magazine paid Considine $4,500), the flyer and the newspaperman divided the book's earnings-two-thirds to Lawson, one-third to Considine...
...offering odds as to who will relieve Fielding. The following quotations came hot off the back room board as we went to press; P. Bennett, 1 1/2 -2; J. Donegan 15-7 1/4; A. Murphy 2 1/4 -1/2; T. Sweeny 5 rubles to a dime; C. Collins 2 ib steel to an ounce of copper...