Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bontemps can sketch convincing characters, to use an overworked expression. His negroes are authentic, and so are his "planter" aristocrats. Ben, the loyal old slave, who betrays the insurgents; Melody, the mulatto mistress of the white rascals; Juba, the slave girl who is in love with the hero; Mr. Moseley Sheppard, Ben's master; Pharaoh, the other traitor--all these characters remain fixed in the memory some time after one has finished reading the book. Gabriel, the hero, who had pondered on the exploits of Toussainat L'Ouverture, the Haitian patriot, is not so forceful as a better novelist would...
...insurrection fails because of the negroes' superstitions. Rain and lightning and thunder are responsible for the loss of many of Gabriel's followers, as well as (partly) for the defection of Ben. Against superstition and treachery even the gods contend in vain, and when Gabriel goes down in defeat he goes down with an undeniable grandeur which even Mr. Bontemps can impart to the reader...
...front rank box-office attractions. This phenomenal record has been made in the face of the fact that for ten years she has been playing, with superficial variations but no real exceptions, one role, that of Cinderella. The news that, loaned to MGM, she was to appear in a Ben Ames Williams story originally picked for Jean Harlow started hopes that Miss Gaynor's marathon might be about to end. Small Town Girl ends them...
Braman Gibbs is a veteran centerfielder and .300 hitter. Flanking him in left stands Ben Prouty, a left handed swinger who hits through third base, a natural second man in any batting order. But in right field there is a void. Jim Sullivan can field the position but can't hit. George Tittmann is erratic and further than that his services are needed with the pitching corps. At present that corps consists mainly of Ingalls; for Southpaw Dick Walsh has failed to live up to expectations, Tittmann is wild, Bilodeau is sequestered at short, and the hard working John Campana...
Eleven other men making the trip are: Al Colwell, Frank Owen, Tom Bilodeau, John Adzigian, Braman Gibbs, Ben Prouty, Jim Sullivan, Dave Shean, Paul Doyle, Dick Walsh, and John Campana...