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...almost lost between the heavy text and the embarrassed sighs of the audience. Most remarkable fact of all: the man who managed thus to combine the theatrical naivete of a junior-highschool pageant with the vulgarity of a third-rate burlesque skit is Eric (In Search of Theater) Bentley, 40, Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University and a leading snob-about-the-theater who argues that there must be theaters for the cultured few, so as to save the "intelligent" drama from commercialism...
...attorneys for the estate of Miss Lucine Lorrimer, who bequeathed Neighbor William C. Yarnall a car of his choice in her will, sought in court to have Yarnall's choice ruled out in favor of a "more conventional" model after he picked out an $18,700 British-made Bentley...
...Elizabeth Bentley told...
Died. E. (for Edmund) C. (for Clerihew) Bentley, 80. British author of the classic crime novel Trent's Last Case, rated by the late G. K. Chesterton as "the finest detective story of modern times"; in London. While still a schoolboy, Bentley invented his celebrated verse form, the clerihew. Sample...
Double Take. In Grand Haven, Mich., Bentley Schut headed for the courthouse to pay a reckless-driving fine, was ticketed for speeding...