Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came the War and the beginning of the astute and spectacular publicity build-up which ended by making Herbert Hoover a World Name and 31st President of the U. S. The publicity artist who sketched the solid outlines of the Hoover portrait which the world came to know was Ben S. Allen...
Deal extravagance and unconstitutionality. Until the fifth, tenth or 15th ballots at Cleveland it seemed highly probable that not even Herbert Hoover would know whether he intended to be a king or a kingmaker. This week, with his ace publicity man Ben Allen, he was in St. Louis to discourse to the John Marshall Republican Club on "The New Deal Further Explored, Including Relief." Listening to this third Hoover barrage, wiseacres credited the fertile wit of onetime Newshawk Allen with the following: "When I comb over these [Relief] accounts of the New Deal my sympathy arises for the humble decimal...
Said Screenwriter Ben Hechtt: "Everybody in California is nuts...
Impressed by Mr. Odets' previous work, and his audacity in bracketing himself with the late great Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, reviewers settled in their seats at Paradise Lost ready for almost anything. When they rose after the final curtain, none could deny that plenty had happened. Ben Gordon, an Olympic runner, marries a wench who betrays him, gets shot in a holdup. His brother Julie takes three acts to die of sleeping sickness. His sister...
...scenes that are ice cream & cake to most mimes. Stella Adler, as Gordon's wife, gets a chance to knock down her brother, Luther Adler, who plays the part of Gordon's partner. Brother Luther thereupon throws a fit. Somebody else knocks down the boy playing brother Ben. The Gordons' Communist furnace man goes around shouting questionable blank verse and has the opportunity to throw a wine glass at a radio during an Armistice Day program. In addition to the sleeping sickness victim there is still another very juicy part, that of an eccentric family friend...