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...addition to Brown, the New York committee consists of Richard C. Aldrich '31, producer; Robert W. Anderson '39, playwright; Robert E. Sherwood '18, playwright; Donald M. Oenslager '23, designer; Curt H. Reisinger '12; Vinton Freedly '14, producer; Leonard H. Goldenson '27, president of Paramount Pictures; Nathaniel Benchley '38; Paul M. Hollister '13; and Donald S. Stralem '24, investment banker...
...When Kansas-born Mrs. Belle Jennings Benchley got a job as a bookkeeper in San Diego's Zoological Garden in 1925, she had nothing in mind but making a little money. She was 42, had been a housewife for 20 years, and had virtually no formal training. She liked animals, had energy and a knack for organization, and soon found herself all but running the zoo -then a struggling institution with only eleven overworked employees. In 1927 she was made director in name as well as in fact. Last week, retired after 26 years, grey-haired, 71-year...
...Percy McKaye '97, Hermann Hagerdorn '07, Edward Sheldon '03, Sidney Howard, Sp '14-'15, Eugene O'Neill, Sp '14-'15, S. N. Behrman '16, Robert E. Sherwood '18, Philip Barry Gr '19-'20; critics H. T. Parker '90, Van Wyck Brooks '08, Heywood Broun '10, Kenneth Macgowan '11, Robert Benchley '12, Brooks Atkinson '18 and John Mason Brown '23; designers Lee Simonson '09, Robert Edmund Junes '10 and Donald Oenslager '23; actors and actresses Walter Hampden '97, Osgood Perkins '14 and Dorothy Sands; and producers Winthrop Ames '95, Maurice Werthheim '06, George Abbot '12, Richard Aldrich '27 and Theresa Hilburn...
...From the summer circuit come George Batson's mystery drama, Celia, with Jessie Royce Landis; The Frogs of Spring, a Manhattan comedy based on Nathaniel Benchley's New Yorker stories; and Eva Gabor in Sailor's Delight...
...stories tell you about the corporeal and uncorporeal world is hard to say. Disregarding the irrelevant moral of the first, I suppose they warn against either laughing off the occult entirely or swallowing it whole. In any case, you reaction to all this may very well depend, as Benchley remarks at one point, on the state of your digestion...