Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scarlet tunics and brass hats, and a landau with two postillions and two footmen-something dug out and refurbished from the Governor General's livery stable. A London-like overcast cloaked the scene, and from the Houses of Parliament sounded a bell that looked and rang like Big Ben...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, horse operas (movie Westerns) remain preeminently the American taste. U. S. composers keep at it, however, and last week a new U. S. opera, The Devil and Daniel Webster, was presented at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theatre. Librettist: Poet Stephen Vincent Benét. Composer: Douglas Moore. Producer: Robert Edmond Jones...
Blue-eyed, reddish-haired Director Webster was born-"a small tangerine-colored object"-34 years ago in Manhattan. On both sides she comes of English actors : famed Dame May Whitty is her mother, Shakespearean Actor Ben Webster her father. Acting since childhood, Margaret Webster slid into directing because the field was less crowded, but admits she prefers acting. Though she professionally directed a score of plays in England, it was in the U. S. three years ago, with Evans' Richard II, that she first directed Shakespeare. Directing plans for next year: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Some...
...Friday game big "Tobo" Healey was coasting along on a safe 8 to 3 lead when the Ben Franklins fell upon his slants, chased him to cover, and finally finished up on Slim Curtiss. When all the smoke had cleared away, the heavy early inning barrage of Lupien and Co. had been nullified, making the score...
...five seat, is one of the two seniors in the boat, Ben Gifford. Last year, Gifford rowed on the Jayvee 150's and has the distinetion of being the only man in the boat who has stepped up from last year's second boat. Directly behind him is a solid trio of sophomores, holding down the four, three, and two positions...