Word: benn
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fluttery Comedian Edward Everett Horton made a walloping twelve-week success of Springtime for Henry in Los Angeles. In June 1939, with no cinema commitments to tie him down, he decided to revive Benn Levy's frothy farce. Since then he has played Henry all over the country, has scooted profitably in & out of more than 75 theatres. Still going strong in Gloucester, Mass, last week, Horton's revival was pushing on past 300 performances...
...Internationalist Behn saw another hole blasted in his war-scarred income account when the Nazis took over a big I. T. & T. manufacturing plant , in Antwerp, which had exported telephone equipment to Latin America and other I. T. & T. customers abroad. But having made peace with Franco, Phoneman Benn planned to transfer some of the Antwerp business to his Spanish manufacturing plant, which he will expand. On export sales, Franco might be induced to let I. T. & T. keep part of its foreign exchange, show Spanish profits again for U. S. stockholders. For Spain, weak on exportable products such...