Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's hopes for three powerful forward lines, so rudely shaken by the injury of Leo Ecker, took a change for the better with the return of Ben Hallowell, whose shoulder injury healed more quickly than had at first been expected, to active duty this week...
Russet Mantle provides Margaret Douglass of Dallas with a belated triumph. An oldtime trouper whose husband is an excellent Southern-style leading man named Ben Smith, she had found Broadway so obdurate that she preferred to remain unmentioned in the program's "Who's Who" when she was given the part of the free-&- easy young woman's mother. The role is that of a Southern matron whose brain is as frivolous as her dress. It is superbly written, and Texan Douglass projects it magnificently. "Ah always was willowy," she reminds her sister, at a time when...
...casting the rest of the picture, Ben Schulberg apparently looked for foreign types rather than for established picture names. Whether the wisdom of the selections will outweigh the lack of draw names is something only the box-office can decide. A departure was the casting of Marian Marsh in the principal feminine role. She is an ethereal little thing and provides the only element appealing strongly to the emotions of the audience. Under Joe's sympathetic direction she gives a beautiful performance...
Most disappointing of all is the news that scrappy Ben Hallow ell's shoulder injury will bench him for about a month, or almost the whole season...
...represented by a sensitive, finely spun dance from Koanga, a delicate serenade from Hassan. Vaughan Williams' London Symphony has seldom been made so eloquent, with its suggestion of the ever-rolling Thames, the gay street scenes leading up to a grim hunger march, the solemn, chimes of Big Ben. After Elgar's rollicking Cockaigne overture there were cheers for Sir Thomas, who suddenly appeared as unconcerned as when he made his entrance...