Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Abou ben Adhem...
When it comes right down to grievances because of the abuse of given names in this country, I feel, like Abou ben Adhem, all those with my name should head the list. The Georges, the Johns and the Fannys really don't know what it means to blush...
...good entertainment in the two features, but one must sit through several reels of crude comedy, mediocre songs, and half-baked acting before being allowed to enjoy it. The dancing of Johnny Downs and Eleanor Whitney in "College Holiday" is top-notch, as are the anties of electrician Ben Blue. "Sing Me A Love Song" presents James Melton, who really can sing, and Patricia Ellis, who really can't act. But as a kleptomaniac who must have even stolen his name, it being Seigfried Hammerschlagg, Hugh Herbert steals all the good sequences of this picture...
Shackmans In Cleveland, Motorcycle Patrolman Carl Bare arrested Sam Shackman for driving with only one license plate, had him jailed. Soon as he had finished with this case, Patrolman Bare spotted the other plate on Brother Ben Shackman's automobile, nabbed him, too, as he was on his way to get Brother Sam out of jail...
Stanchest of Fingard backers became the Dowager Duchess of Suffolk and Berkshire, daughter of the late Chicago department store tycoon, Levi Zeigler Leiter. Also stanch is Lieut.-General Sir Harold Ben Fawcus.K.C.B.,C.B..C.M.G., D.S.O., D.C.L., M.B., D.P.H.. Director- General of the British Red Cross, one-time Director-General of the Army Medical Services. These and others just as influential got King George V's ear, got him to order the Duke-Fingard Treatment investigated officially. Whatever its merits or demerits, now decided Health Minister Sir Kingsley Wood's men, the Treatment did not require Mr. Fingard...