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...around footlights in Hasty Pudding theatricals, with the proper patronesses, but beyond that one simply does not go. However, as Professor Baker can probably do his work much more efficiently at Yale, the existence of this attitude at Harvard would seem to be of a purely local importance. Robert Benchley in Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Baker Again | 12/16/1924 | See Source »

Among the celebrities, present will be James Montgomery Flagg and Gluyas Williams '11, Heywood Broun '10 and Robert C. Benchley '12 were also on the invited list but were unable to accept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE COMICS OF EAST VISIT LAMPOON | 12/13/1924 | See Source »

...metropolitan inactivity, is in eruption with the Ritz Revue. Associated with him is the elongated Charlotte Greenwood, than whom there is no more foolish female unless it be Fanny Brice, who is among the natural phenomena of the forthcoming Music Box Revue. In the same Box are Robert Benchley and the ridiculous Clark and McCullough. In Dutch is the Gallagher and Shean trademark. Leon Errol will fall on his face as Louis in Louis, the Fourteenth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Loudest and Funniest | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

Alexander Woollcott?"It should be reported that George Jean Nathan of the American Mercury shook and roared with cosmopolitan merriment throughout the evening, and that Robert C. Benchley of Life faded away after the first act, leaving the play to be reviewed by his astral body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 8, 1924 | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

...Robert C. Benchley, writer on the Drama for Life, and Mrs. John P. Lyons, President of the National Federation of Music Clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Taylor & Co. | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

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