Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dull ones. Reared in a household which was kept awake at night by new and erratic ideas about cinema, he has been full of ideas ever since. His idea when he resigned from Paramount where he had been getting $104,000 a year as assistant to Production Manager Ben P. Schulberg was this: mass production in the cinema is wrong. It produces inferior pictures and costs more than production in small units. Also, Depression has recently made exhibitors partial to independent products. Selznick-Milestone will make perhaps six pictures a year. If the company is a success, there will...
...that they are starving to death, suspects a doctor's plot to murder them. Implicated in the scheme is the household chauffeur (Clark Gable) who cuffs the nurse on the jaw when she disobeys his orders. When the hero of the picture, the 'legger whom she befriended (Ben Lyon), enters the children's sickroom and points a gun at the chauffeur, audiences are likely to show a reaction which is rarely provoked in the cinema without the aid of cowboys, ropes, revolvers and Dirty Pete, the cattle rustler -to clap hands loudly and chuckle with relief. Well...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...
...have emerged from anonymity because of the size of their operations and the reputed size of the fortunes they have made by selling short, are William ("Bad Bill") Danforth and Bernard ("Big Ben") Smith. Last week's tall tale had it that Bear Danforth had decided to turn Bull; had decided to buy Can, Steel and other leaders; and believed, moreover, that his fellow Big Bears concurred in his change of financial heart. But Bear Smith, it appeared, had concurred in no such thing. So, while Bear-turned-Bull Danforth bought, Bear-still-Bear Smith sold. Mr. Danforth...
Last year "Smack 'Em Ben" is said to have been asked if he were any relation of David Lamar, onetime "Wolf of Wall Street," manytime a criminal suspect. He is supposed to have laughed, replied, "Sure, I'm the brother-in-law of the Wolf of Wall Street." The New York World telephoned him to ask if this fact was true. He thought it was a joke, said yes. The next morning the World published a story in which it said that Bernard E. Smith was David Lamar's brother-in-law. Within 24 hours this statement...