Word: benning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyone can profit by President Hopkins's "movie" prescriptions. Apparently, there are nothing but comedies; Harold Lloyd for "high" comedy--Ben Turpin for "low" comedy, and Charlie Chaplin for general "brilliance". One can see that nothing was omitted which could help produce "more cultured minds". From Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the shameless man, came an invitation to call and talk the matter over in person. Chancellor Brown of New York University offered the assistance of an English instructor; as yet, nothing has been heard from President Lowell...
...gayer Greek professor, with Henry Kitchell Webster and Edwin Balmer, both popular novelists. There is Schlogel's, chiefly picturesque as a cafe by reason of pre-prohibition memories, where gather the denisons of The Chicago Daily News, where one may find Harry Hanson, the Heywood Broun of Chicago; Ben Hecht, who aims to shock; and last, but oh! not least, Carl Sandburg...
Controversy between mothers of the North and South of England as to their respective stamina and speed with the buggies inspired the race. Five mothers entered the lists and took off from the Parliament buildings as Big Ben chimed 5:15 A. M. Three of the infant riders were under a year...
Bertha Kalich and Jacob Ben-Ami have left the English stage for a brief period. During the Passover season they will star in Yiddish companies which will produce the leading Yiddish classics...
...Scribner's ($1.50). Mr. Young, critic for The New Republic, observes the current drama with a more leisurely eye than the critics of the daily press. His speculations are always interesting, frequently fundamental. Among other phases of the drama under his analysis are acting in general, that of Ben Ami, Charles Chaplin and Duse in particular, the cinema, the effect of poetic drama on the actor, the Theatre Guild's production of He Who Gets Slapped. THE TYRANNY OF POWER - D. Thomas Curtin. Little, Brown ($2.00). This book is valuable chiefly as a study of melancholy conditions existing...