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...Hur, by Elpha Anita Ellington, produced on Mutual's Command Performance series. From Lew Wallace via Hollywood, with inspirational dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Best Plays | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Proud of its title of the "Hoosier Athens" is Crawfordsville, Ind. (pop. 10,000), home of the late great Best-Seller General Lew Wallace (Ben Hur). Crawfords ville's biggest office building-five stories-is owned by Ben Hur Life Association. The town's prettiest buildings are on the campus of Wabash College. Two or three times a year, one of these buildings, a prim chapel seating 1,100 people, becomes Crawfordsville's concert hall. There last fortnight, Crawfordsville culture glowed at its brightest. In the chapel 650 townsfolk heard the season's second and final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hoosier Athens' Symphony | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...risk-laden as coins in a slot machine are Hollywood's top-budget pictures. Occasionally one hits the jackpot. Birth of a Nation hit it for the industry's all-time box-office gross: over $15,000,000 (in 25 years). Big Parade, Ben Hur hit it for over $10,000,000 each. Snow White hit it for better than $8,000,000 to date, is still going strong. But no picture ever grossed so much in so short a time as Gone With the Wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Record Wind | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...taken seven years to write. They knew it had taken two years and something akin to genius to find a girl to play Scarlett O'Hara. They knew it had cost more ($3,850,000) to produce the picture than any other in cinema history except Ben Hur ($4,500,000) and Hell's Angels ($4,000,000). They knew it was one of the longest pictures ever filmed (three hours and three quarters of Technicolored action). Above all, most of them knew by heart the love story of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...enormous Center Theatre is a problem in itself - ideal for Ben Hur, but practically ruinous for anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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