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...reasonably LIFE-like picture magazine tour Mexico, Cuba and Brazil, gathering orchid buds where they may for a good-neighborly musical revue. Photographer Phillip Terry, Writer Audrey Long and her fiance (Marc Cramer) sweat out the love interest; Editress Eve Arden is primed with metropolitan wisecracks; Editor Robert Benchley explains the samba, and Ernest Truex adds an eerily funny moment as a mad millionaire who likes to cry hopefully to his guests, "Happyhappy-HAPPY!" In the course of their work the tourists watch a Mexican peasant wedding and several pieces of professional entertainment, notably by Miss Brazil (Louise Burnett...
...becomes about twice as real as the run of movie love bouts. The singing and dancing numbers are on the whole refreshingly lacking in Hollywood's normal polish; they have, indeed, a good deal of the seamy vitality of authentic floor shows. Even more authentic is Robert Benchley's sleepy applause, at the end of each number...
Your articles on bed rest (TIME, April 24; Sept. 11) will unnecessarily embarrass late or substantial sleepers like Robert Benchley, and also physicians whose patients rebel at badly needed restriction of activity...
Janie's father (Edward Arnold), who publishes the town paper, writes a blast about youth's pitfalls, but while his wife (Ann Harding) and his best friend (Robert Benchley) demur, the mote in his own eye grows to beam size. Janie, one night when the family is out, arranges to vibrate with Pvt. Lawrence in the privacy of her home. Thanks to Scooper, who is mad with jealousy, and to her little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy...
Former members of HDC include a theatrical luminaries as Robert Benchley'12, Walter Hampden, and John Mr. Brown...