Word: hechts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Henry Justin Smith, 60, on the Chicago Daily News since 1899 (except for 1924-26, when he assisted University of Chicago's president), managing editor since 1926; of pneumonia; in Evanston, III. Under his tutelage developed many well-known newshawks, including Ben Hecht, Howard Vincent O'Brien, Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Poet Carl Sandburg...
Jumbo (words & music by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; Billy Rose, producer). Having announced the opening of his show every week since Labor Day, having postponed it ten consecutive times until at last he bought space in the newspapers to plead: "I'll be a dirty name if I'll open Jumbo until it's ready," last week minuscule Billy Rose finally presented in Manhattan's Hippodrome the spectacle that was supposed to be BIGGER THAN A SHOW, BETTER THAN A CIRCUS. First-nighters were provided with a scale by which to judge...
Last week the nation's bankers met again, this time in New Orleans, home town of retiring ABA President Rudolf S. Hecht. The climate was milder, the bankers bolder, the New Dealers more conciliatory...
...refurnish (cost: $40,000) the fusty interior of North America's best-known show house (rental: $104,000 a year). He hired actors like Jimmy Durante, Arthur Sinclair, Blanche Ring for his star parts. And, catching them when they needed money, he contracted with Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur to write a libretto on which he could string his circus acts, stars and tunes. Messrs. Hecht & MacArthur repaired for a fortnight last winter to Suite No. 21, Villa Marguerita, Charleston, S. C., the exact spot where they turned out their memorable Front Page and 20th Century...
Barbary Coast (Samuel Goldwyn) is a gaslight and "hoss''-pistol melodrama of San Francisco in the gold-rush days, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, directed by Howard Hawks, acted by Edward G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea. That it somehow fails to justify expectations is due largely to the fact that the story, about an underworld tsar who constitutes himself protector of a lady croupier in his gambling house and then shows that his heart is in the right place by giving her up when she falls in love with a mealy-mouthed young prospector...