Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eugenics experiment, and the hotel manager's counterscheme of supplying, as material for the experiment, young people capable of putting on entertainments that will attract paying guests-are a series of acts which show what has become of old-fashioned vaudeville. Samples: Gracie Allen. George Burns and Ben Blue dancing the minuet; Martha Raye stretching her monstrous mouth; Jack Benny in a burlesque version of Love in Bloom; Marsha Hunt and Leif Erikson singing to each other...
...Hollywood, cross-eyed Comedian Ben Turpin, 62, bemoaned his idleness, exclaimed: "I'd be terrific as a studio gatekeeper. Imagine-the only guy in the business who could see 'em coming and going...
Long before Actor Gielgud and Actress Lawrence had returned their mounts to the Ben Hur Livery Stables and the Ball was over, a small gentleman in evening clothes, Beaux-Arts' Board Chairman Ely Jacques Kahn, knew that the Beaux-Arts had made history this year. It was back on Broad way after a nostalgic period at the Waldorf-Astoria. For the first time an outsider had furnished the decorations, seven rayon companies having paid heavily for the privilege of advertising the ball as a Fete de Rayon Fantastique. And into the coffers of the Beaux-Arts Institute to educate...
...pool, also, was Ben Gazelle, Canadian back stroke and free style and British Empire back stroke record holder...
Last Monday six football men, including Dave Glueck, Bob Green, Ben Smith, Verne Struck, Cliff Wilson, and Stuart Zimman, reported for practice. Only Verne Struck has earned a place in the top bracket, replacing Leavitt White at guard. Coach Fesler's alternate quintet will probably be made up of Grondahl and Shirk, forwards; Heckkel and White, guards; and Herrick, center...