Word: benchley
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...comic pantomime; they shrink to nothing compared with his whirlwind patter, his miraculous doubletalk. Even as he enacted Melody in Four F (written for him by his wife, Sylvia Fine, and Max Liebman), first-nighters suspected that they were seeing the birth of another such theater classic as Robert Benchley's Treasurer's Report, Joe Cook's Four Hawaiians...
Fidgety Comic Robert Benchley, whose chief claim to charm is that he seems to be in a perpetual, ingratiating hangover, launches the picture. As a soft-shelled Broadway producer with an eye for nice little items named Sonya, he drives into Manhattan, sees the picture's title, cast and credits on a series of roadside billboards...
...Never Get Rich" is not worth so much in itself as it is as a promise of good things to come; this duo, with some careful handling, should work out to be one of the screen's most attractive and entertaining couples. Robert Benchley is mildly funny, though he seems a bit tired of it all. And there are a couple of good tunes that might, now that B. M. I. and ASCAP are buddies, find their way to the hit parade...
...most successful traditions fostered by Professor Murdock was the annual Christmas reading, which Professor Hoadley intends to perpetuate. The evening was invariably begun with an excerpt from the Gospel according to St. Luke, but before long "Ken" launched into long quotations from Dorothy Parker and Bob Benchley, whose works, along with those of P.G. Wodehouse, lined his library shelves...
...didn't get away from "The Get-Away," which features plenty of good close-ups of Tommy guns and a moral as big as a signboard: Don't rob defense payrolls. Personally, we preferred Bob Benchley's brand of "Crime Control...