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Giuseppe Bentonelli was Joe Benton from Sayre, Okla., who frankly admits that he changed his name to make it sound bigger abroad. Joe Benton was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Oklahoma in 1920. As a singer he was a pupil of the late great Jean de Reszke, a protégé of Chicago's old Kate Buckingham who gave Grant Park its fountain. Kate Buckingham gave Joe Benton a big champagne party after his debut last week in Tosca. Critics praised a new tenor who had a high clear voice and could...
...quarter-mile apart in Benton Harbor, Mich, lie the dormitories and mansions of two branches of the famed religious cult called the House of David. Founded some 30 years ago by "King"' Benjamin Purnell. the House of David was divided by its founder's death in 1927. His widow and "Queen" took command of the ''Israelite House of David as Reorganized by Mary Purnell." A California judge named Harry T. Dewhirst won the right to the name House of David. With 300 followers apiece, the two cults live communally, subscribe to the same credo. They...
...painting." "Scratch a patron or a collector, and you find a dealer." Modern Art brings forward for public inspection Mr. Craven's sincere belief and hope that an "explicitly native art" is now growing in the U. S. He finds indications of it in Muralist Thomas Benton (see cut), "one of the few living artists, in any department, with a first-rate mind.'' Says Critic Craven of this Missouri artist: "To the conservatives he is a Red; to the radicals he is a Chauvinist. His art is too specifically real, too deeply impregnated with what I shall...
Sanford Ross lives in a Manhattan apartment, summers in Rumson, N. J. He studied under George Luks and Thomas Benton, shows little of their influence. Sensitive to such Americana as gas stations, oil tanks, railroad crossings, Artist Ross is represented in the Addison Gallery in Andover, Mass. and New Jersey's Newark Museum...
...33rd biennial convention of the United Mine Workers of America at Indianapolis came to an end last week in an atmosphere thick with New Deal harmony and goodwill. For the first time in the history of the world's largest labor union, an employers' representative, Secretary Carroll Benton Huntress of the National Coal Association, had addressed the gathering. Never before had the union boasted so many members (360,000), never before had so many delegates (1,700) attended a U. M. W. convention. There was a whole sea of new faces, delegates from areas hitherto un-unionized before...