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...Francis R. Appleton '75, Thomas W. Sloeum '90, Jerome D Greene '96, Arthur A. Ballantine '04, James Byrne '77, Richard Douglas '12, Dr. Walter C. Bailey '91, John Gallishaw '17. Paul HcIlister '13, James F. Curtis '99, Heywood Broun '10, Walter Pritchard Eaton '00. Alexander Woollcott, Robert C. Benchley '12, Robert E. Sherwood '17, and Professor Copeland...
First-nighters were recently amazed to learn that the leading critics of the metropolitan papers had consented to review the show at the opening night of the Columbia Theatre, New York's principal burlesque theatre. Broun and Benchley and Woolcott, and all the rest of them, occupied aisle seats at the performance, and printed their formal reviews in their publications. The meaning of the incident soon became plain: the authorities recognized the effort made by the better element in burslesque to clean house. The most prominent theatrical personages paid homage to the wagers of the bitterest war that the theatre...
...Robert Benchley characterized "Grounds For Divorce," opening this week at the Plymouth Theatre, as "Ina Claire at her best." That cells part of the story, probably the best part, but still only a part. The play itself is excellent, the staging is good, and all the characters outdo themselves in making a background for the brilliant work of Miss Claire...
Blanche Bates offered her usual determined and consciously complete performance. Elliott Cabot who, with Robert Benchley, is the most promising of the younger Harvard actors, made a keen impression on the critics. Quite the best of the troupe was Ruth Gordon (Lola Pratt in Seventeen). She wandered in occasionally as the little girl from up the street and quite pulled the play from the grasp of the Partridge family...
...four women's colleges were very evenly matched in their contest, but the Wellesley representatives managed to defeat their opponents after a heart-breaking struggle which brought the spectators to their feet. The wife of Robert Benchley '12, who was a member of the Bryn Mawr team, distinguished herself especially, even in defeat...