Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ladies and Gentlemen (produced by Gilbert Miller; by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur from a play by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete) brings Near-Divinity Helen Hayes back to Broadway in her first new role there since December 1935. For this Broadway can rejoice, even though finding anything to rejoice at in the play itself is like looking for a needle in a Hayestack. After a two-month tryout, this thing of shreds & patches is still, like Gaul, divided into three parts-comedy, drama, romance -and, as in Gaul, the three parts are on very uncivil terms...
Author Asch calls Judas "Judah IshKiriot," as he calls others by their Hebrew names: Rabbi Yeshua ben Joseph (Jesus), Miriam of Migdal (Mary Magdalene), Simon bar Jonah (Peter). It is Author Asch's thesis (as it has been of some Christian scholars) that Judas was so impatient for the salvation of mankind-"My soul is famished for the redemption," he said-that he betrayed Jesus to hurry the inevitable...
...custard pie with a new-style, squshier, stickier, whipped-cream pie, summoned oldtime Pie-slinger Buster Keaton to hurl 56 of them; called in Mack Sennett, Chester Conklin, Jed Prouty, many another old-timer to impersonate themselves, resurrected Keystone Cops* and Bathing Beauties, the bewitchingly crossed eyes of Bartender Ben Turpin. Many a fan sat twice through the heartthrob antics of 1939 to see the side-splitting antics...
Sole remaining feature of the old magazine is the St. Nicholas League, a department for child contributors. Started in 1900, the League published early stories, poems and drawings by Robert Benchley, Stephen Vincent Benét, Robert Edmond Jones, Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...poets who became his friends were Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, Robert Frost, William Rose Benét and his wife, Elinor Wylie. Advised Lindsay: "Base the serious side of your criticism of poetry with the tone of Abraham Lincoln as a touchstone, and the criticism of humor on the tone of Mark Twain. . . . We must have a humorous standard. Young writers. . . have been offered every kind of freedom by the critics but this-the freedom to laugh...