Word: benning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Volpone. When the Theatre Guild wanted to play Ben Jonson's sardonic comedy, they chose to retranslate the German version recently effected by Stefan Zweig. Their choice was wise. As rewritten by an up-to-date European, Author Jonson's somewhat mechanical morality becomes a gleeful and raucous farce, lacking the solemnity of a classic and imbued instead with precisely the caustic and colloquial violence which it had for its original audiences...
When asked what she thought of the scheme proposed by Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Miss Fairfax said she expected to take up the cudgels against him soon by going on a lecture tour in opposition to Companionate Marriage...
...Ben Jonson's play, done by the ambitious Theatre Guild. It does not open until Monday, but in the Guild's hands and acted by Alfred Lunt, Margalo Gilmore and Dudley Digges it cannot but be a huge success...
...Author, whose real name is at present Mrs. William Rose Benét, gained her literary reputation when she published, in 1921, a book of poems called Nets to Catch the Wind. After Black Armour, more poetry, she poured into a mold of prose the fluent and shining metal of her talent for metaphor. Jennifer Lorn was her first novel; The Orphan Angel and The Venetian Glass Nephew its successors. Author Wylie, her publishers announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears...
Furthermore, it may well be remembered that Judge Ben Lindsey in his book on companionate marriage noted "the tendency of the younger generation to seek comfort and convenience." His meaning is dual. Unquestionably he was at that time aware of the cushion menace to religion...