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Word: benning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glorious portrayal of General Burgoyne in The Devil's Disciples, now running in Manhattan, gives him a foothold somewhere below the niches of the famous. He may hoist himself upwards by other, more difficult performances. To those who rush with arguments regarding Leslie Howard, Joseph Schildkraut, Jacob Ben-Ami, Geoffrey Kerr, it need only be said that all of them first saw the sunlight and the footlights on the opposite side of the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: A Hero Shortage | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

There's a moral somewhere. But it is fairly difficult to worry about plots and morals when Agnes Ayres, Mary Astor, Leatrice Joy and Ben Turpin are thrown in simply for atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 6, 1923 | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...Chicago Literary Times is edited by Ben Hecht with assistance from Maxwell Boderiheirn. The current issue of this periodical speaks of The New Republic and The Nation (pink politico-literary weeklies published in New York) as " two waltzing poodles bombinating humorlessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Editor-in-Chief | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...Failures, an adaptation from H. R. Tenormand's tragedy, Les Rates. Jacob Ben Ami will have the lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes, Jul. 9, 1923 | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

Subsequent advices from Great Falls, Mont., where the champion is training for his fight with Gibbons, show that he shattered the jawbone of an oxlike sparring partner?one Ben Wray, seven-footer from Oklahoma?in a sparring bout. One thousand visiting Shriners paid $500 to hear the jaw crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modest Jack | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

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