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...while "Bliss" was Professor Bliss Perry, beloved English teacher. Professor Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, and his readings have thrilled thousands. Annually be attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman Robert Benchley '12, and many more." About each of these the legends are never-ending...
What makes this film better than average is a fast-moving story and a dialogue par excellence. The advertising company of A. M. MacGregor, Inc, is made up of Miss Russell and our own Bob Benchley, who spends his working hours playing a glorified pin-ball machine in the back office. The ruling feminine touch rakes in the profits, and is hampered only by the jealous wives of baldheaded company presidents who fear with good reason the extra-business relations of Miss Russell and their husbands. Enter Fred MacMurray, who takes the wives out to dinner and makes everybody happy...
Sometimes sophomoric, sometimes savage, Morgan's programs are a mixture of monologue and weird recorded music. A favorite of Robert Benchley, James Thurber, Stuart Chase, Morgan follows a simple formula. He breaks all the rules. As a result he is the envy of every announcer who ever gagged politely while rolling off an unctuous commercial. Once when reading a plug for Adler Elevator Shoes "Knockabouts come in ten colors . . . beige, cinnamon, blue . . ."), Morgan ad-libbed remarks on the probable habits of a man who would wear blue shoes, remarked "I wouldn't be seen in them...
Take A Letter, Darling (Paramount) is dedicated to the proposition that anything can happen in an advertising agency. On this premise, it is not unreasonable that in the firm of Atwater (Robert Benchley) & MacGregor (Rosalind Russell) the senior partner should devote his time to pitching quoits and avoiding issues while his attractive junior does all the work...
Robert C. Benchley '42, president of the Lampoon, has announced that the humor magazine will parody the newspaper PM this year in a issue expected to be out within the next two weeks...