Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre upside down, invade the musicians' room, wardrobe room, property room, and even, amid terrified squeals, the backstage quarters of the naked ladies of the ensemble. They question everyone: unholy Siebenkase (Bela Lugosi of Dracula); Madame Tanqueray, the wren-like wardrobe mistress; bug-eyed Billy Slade, impersonated by Ben Lackland. As usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with a Lot to Explain. All the giggling girls, comics and doormen have been interviewed when Inspector Ellery comes at last to the temperamental diva, Sonya Sonya. The diva turns out to be Olga Baclanova...
...reporters now refer to it as a rat-haunt, shudder at its squalid gloom. To Ben Day it was the amazing manifestation of a newspaper idea he had conceived, toyed with, but left to others to carry through...
Last week in Manhattan the Sun celebrated the hundredth anniversary of Ben Day's idea. It got out a 104-page edition describing the history of the Sun from Day through Charles Anderson Dana down to the present ownership. Included was a reprint of the Sun's first issue...
...named Richard Adams Locke wrote an ingenious account of how Sir John Herschel. with his new telescope, had found manbats, beasts and weird vegetation on the moon. Locke's hoax shoved the Sim's circulation up to 19,000-largest of any daily in the world -and Ben Day could boast that New Yorkers read the Sun by day, studied the moon by night. Nine years later the Sun fostered another fable-the balloon hoax. It was Edgar Allan Poe's account of a supposed airship flight from England to South Carolina. The hoax lasted for only...
...Ben Day sold the Sun to his brother-in-law, Moses Yale Beach, for $40,000, and 30 years later said it was the silliest thing he ever did. The Beach family managed the paper for 30 years, except for the period from 1860-62 when a religious group edited it and held noon prayer meetings in the city room. Then in 1868 a group of investors headed by Charles Anderson Dana bought the Sun for $175,000, moved it lock, stock & barrel to the fusty old building on Nassau Street...