Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moving Ben Prouty into the second base hole should help out Coach Fred Mitchell with a tough situation. The two previous incumbents. Johnny Fitzpatrick ad Phil Hines were hitting for 100 and .222 respectively. Ware, who will return to his old center field berth was swatting the apple for .286 when Prouty took over...
...Columbia production "Twentieth Century," at RKO Keith's this week, affords an excellent antidote for Divisional post mortems or a pleasing apertif for finals, as the case may be Based on the show hit "Napoleon of Broadway," this saga of the stage was dressed up to Hollywood style by Ben Heeht and Charles Mac Arthur who gave it new lines, exaggerated the heroic, and knew John Barrymore would have the lead. Unlike its predecessors of the "Shanghai Express" variety, "Twentieth Century" has no villains, bandits, or languishing females, but is graced with a frantic, egomaniae producer (John Barrymore), his irrepressive...
Twentieth Century (Columbia). This febrile saga of a journey on New York Central's crack train was a Broadway success last year (TIME, Jan. 9, 1933). Authors Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur transcribed it into cinema by thinking up new and fantastic situations, by enlarging to heroic proportions the frenzied, egomaniac character of Impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore), and by detailing the way he discovers a lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard), turns her into Lily Garland the Great Actress, bullies her and loses her to Hollywood. Thereafter Jaffe, who resembles Morris Gest, Richard Bennett, Josef von Sternberg...
Born Myrna Williams 29 years ago on a Montana ranch, Myrna Loy was "discovered'' as an obscure sculptress by Rudolph Valentino. Given the Madonna role in Ben Hur, she was told three hours later she was "not the type." For years she played an endless monotony of roles portraying seductive sinuosity. A stranger to Broadway, she has never been east of the Mississippi...
...League, and Johnny Powell his veteran partner at second. In the pitcher's box Hal Sked and Andy Barton will share honors, with both men capable of turning in a Grade A performance. For Harvard, Fred Mitchell will stick to the winning lineup that took Princeton and Cornell. Ben Prouty in center field and Phil Hines at second have given the Varsity an extra punch it didn't have before they were sent into the second battle with the Ithacans, and Mitch isn't going to break up a winning outfit. Charley Nevin, the siege gun who is leading...