Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the reappearance of "Gold in the Hills," the Stagers present a melodramatic finale to a successful season at the Peabody Playhouse. Probably their best show value was the production last week of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page." It seemed to me as I sat through the performance that Francis Grover Cleveland gave a much more interesting interpretation of Hildy Johnson than Pat O'Brien did in the motion picture. While some of the other players were not up to the standard set by the cinema, the whole impression was one of sustained action with...
American Dream (by George O'Neil; Theatre Guild, producer). Unlike Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, Poet O'Neil makes no attempt to evoke the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost with dollar-silver in its saddle-horn, the pure elixir, the American thing. Poet O'Neil's preachment is the sort of cheap claptrap with which a third-rate evangelist might try to impress a young folks' Bible class. That it impressed the Guild's hard-headed production committee is cause for wonder...
...order the Porcupine quartet had not the heart to obey. They simply had to clean up when they went to the big city. They appeared at the dinner in store clothes with faces bright & shining. Vexed, Matt Brush would not let them sing. He and jovial Speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, upon whom the quartet had also made a profound impression and who had helped finance the stunt, were deeply disappointed over the whole business...
...your baby, dont that we can get it for we can and will if it takes years, i am sorry that you paid your money to the rong man when i now that he did not get your baby and if you not published it your baby would have ben with you today but you broadcast and it was in all the papers, he died of new monia. we have no warm place to stay now i do not want this little baby we want he money and it will cheaper to pay us the $50,000 your child...
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (United Artists -Joseph Schenck) was written by Ben Hecht, adapted by Samuel Behrman. scored by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart. directed by Lewis Milestone and acted by, among others, Al Jolson...