Word: benchley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Limit (RKO-Radio) whips Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie and Robert Benchley together with some other promising ingredients, then collapses into equal parts of mild pleasure and disappointment. Most cinemusicals are so large, loud and splendid that seeing one is like trying to eat a wedding cake singlehanded. The Sky's the Limit is rather short (89 minutes), rather unspectacular (there are no chorus numbers), rather quiet (three suave tunes...
...founded in 1908, did not disband during the last war and intends to maintain its unbroken record of American premiers throughout the duration of this one. Starting with such charter members as H. V. Kaltenborn '09, Robert Benchley '12, and Charles W. Putnam '11, the club's roster has been brightened in the past 35 years with the names of George Abbott, John Dos Passos '16, and Kenneth MacGowan...
Among those who have "stirred the Pudding" are Robert Benchley and Vinton Freedley, as well as countless notables who have made their names in fields other than the show business. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and the late George Baker were grease-paint at 12 Holyoke Street. J. P. Morgan was a show manager, and the walls are lined with posters and mementoes telling the story of other plays and personalities...
...mailing wrappers for the first three issues got so mixed up that some subscribers got three copies of Vol. 1, No. 1, and some got none at all. Its printing standards were about those of a French provincial newspaper in 1910, and the pictures, in the words of Robert Benchley, "looked as if they had been engraved on pieces of bread." At the start we did not have even one salaried advertising salesman, for the chances of selling enough advertising to pay his stipend seemed too slim. We called TIME "the weekly newsmagazine" on the cover and "the weekly newspaper...
...Married a Witch (Veronica Lake, Fredric March, Robert Benchley, Cecil Kellaway; TIME...