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...prefer their own lamp light to the colder luminaries of the winter heavens. No better book for such a purpose, no more delightful, distinguished, and never dull--to be precise, let's suggest that David McCord is an excellent essayist in the Hazlitt manner with a touch of Benchley at his best...
...personality is more amusing. Ring Lardner can convulse It is readers with a tense drama, the scene of which is laid on a bath mat. Very few Englishmen, however, and very few Victorians would see any humor in Mr. Lardner. And similarly with Donald Ogden Stewart, Robert Benchley--although he is more universal than the rest--and Milt Gross. The fact that there are at least five magazines who make a business of culling their material from the files of university and college publications all over the nation would appear to prove that college with is also American...
...really ambitious tournament adds to the occasion and hence is out to sharpen the spirit of competition in dramatic circles. One fears, however, for the outcome of Mr. Tilden in the event, that his all-American acting team should be chosen, it only on the basis of Critic Benchley's cogent comment that Tilden could probably coin more cash with Pyle's than with his own theatrical troupe...
Lady Fair is all that money can make it, and it will continue to be just that during what promises to be a long run on Broadway. Bob Benchley will take it for a ride, and it will deserve all the ride it gets at the hands of that humorist. It takes itself as seriously as possible, and like the well-behaved, stupid child of rich parents that it is it will go a long...
Among those who will speak are James Byrne '77, Thomas W. Slocum '90, Richard Douglas '12, Heywood Broun '10, Alexander Woolcott, Robert C. Benchley '12, Richard Washburn Chiki '03, and Owen Wister...