Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Noyes began to appear. The pioneers in this branch of study in America have been Professor Hazelton Spencer of Johns Hopkins, Professor A. C. Sprague of Harvard and Professor Leslie Hotson of Haverford College. With this book Dr. Noyes joins that company of specialists and adds the account of Ben Jonson's fate during the Restoration and the XVIIIth century to the tales already told of how Shakespeare was 'improved' or adapted to the tastes and prejudices of our ancestors, and how Beaumont and Fletcher fared...
...Harvard third line, with Al Dewey at center, Ben Hallowell and Mike Hovenanian at the wing positions, showed the improvement consistent with a week of heavy practice, and will be on trial for the next couple of weeks as a possible high-powered attack unit...
...Captain Freddy Moseley will be out of the lineup tonight with a charley horse, Coach Stubbs plans to take him to Montreal for the tangle with the powerful McGill team on Saturday night. The 15 men who played in the last Dartmouth game, changed only by the substitution of Ben Hallowell for Leo Ecker, will make the trip...
From the point of view of vitality, Ben Hecht's stories are only mildly, Kay Boyle's bitterly, alive. A theatrical, rococo writer, Showman Hecht spreads hokum and verbiage with a lavish hand. Most effective in this swollen vein when he writes about the greasepaint dramatics of Broadway or the alcoholic hilarities of fabulous newshawks, at his middling worst he seems a dim shadow of O. Henry or Edgar Allan Poe. Best story in the book (Snowfall in Childhood) stands out like Shirley Temple on the stage of the Grand Guignol: a simply written reminiscence of first love...
...Author. Ben Hecht, "Pagliacci of the Fire Escape," is that rare type, a bohemian who made good on Broadway. Manhattan-born (1894), he staked his first claims to fame in Chicago, whither, after spurning college and joining a road-show as an acrobat, he went intending to be a violinist, turned newshawk instead. A vehement, ironic and imaginative talker, a writer of the generously promissory sort, he was taken seriously enough by the longhaired to be printed in Margaret Anderson's late Little Review. A collaborator of parts, he wrote several plays with Maxwell Bodenheim, then quarrelled with...