Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 42110. St., New York City. Champion
Astute playgoers recognized a familiar sound about some of the names in the case. They recalled "Hildy" Johnson as the hero of The Front Page, virile play of Chicago newspaper men by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Murphy was another of the hardboiled reporters. Duffy Cornell, neither seen nor heard on the stage, was cursed over the telephone...
...motion picture industry appears to regard as its most sacred duty, that circus sawdust is a powder of romance. Here a trapeze artist in a traveling circus becomes united, after vicissitudes and theme songs, with the protagonist in a medicine show. A distinguished cast including Helen Twelvetrees, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin and Stepin Fetchit are involved in the itinerant sentimentalities. The villain is the ringmaster and has a mustachio...
Kiss Me With Your Eyes and You Darlin' (Columbia)-Ben Selvin plays these with plenty of pace and ingenious orchestration...
...keep from falling asleep Their second-hand Stinson Detroiter, City of Chicago, its left wing tank leaking badly, listed far to the right. The Wright J-6 motor coughed and sputtered after 18 days of continuous flight. Brothers Walter and Albert Hunter came up in their Plane Big Ben for the 154th time with gas and oil, with a meal prepared by Sister Irene John and Kenneth pushed on on, circling Chicago's Sky Harbor airport-finally waggled their wings in triumphant acknowledgment of the cheers they knew were coming from the crowd below. Thus, last week...