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Nice Girl? resembles a shiny Rolls-Royce that won't run. Carried in its cast is a selection of Hollywood's most polished performers-'Robert Benchley, Walter Brennan, Helen Broderick, Franchot Tone. But their efforts to keep the aimless, insipid Richard Connell-Gladys Lehman screen play afloat are like the haphazard courage of doomed men. Benchley as a widower highschool principal with three lightheaded daughters (Deanna, Anne Gwynne, Ann Gillis) looks as if he were trying to get by unrecognized. Since there is no observable plot, the rest of the characters just meander around the Benchley household...
...versatile actress she is today. She had a tendency to overplug her comedy with exaggerated gestures and grimaces, and she had little emotional range. But gradually, especially by working with the hyper critical and candid Coward, her acting began to acquire sureness and scope. After Private Lives even Robert Benchley was encouraged to say: "Certain curmudgeons m these parts will hear with relief that Miss Lawrence has somewhat abated since her last didoes in New York. She can now express wild surprise without such feats of contortion as really ought to be saved up for the more startling details...
When he was a student at Harvard. Robert Benchley was once asked on an exam to discuss the international law of the North American Fisheries case. He wrote in his blue book: "I know nothing of the North American Fisheries and less about international law, but I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you the fishes' point of view." He did, and his blue book was so funny that the professor gave him a passing grade. --Christian Science Monitor
Other selections for the new staff of Harvard's humor magazine include Juniors Winthrop L. Carter Jr., treasurer; Robert C. Benchley, Jr., Ibis; Arthur W. Viner, Narthex; John W. Flint, Jr., Advertising Manager; Sumner R. Andrews, Circulation Manager; William Wesselhoeft secretary; and David B. Williams, business assistant...
...Harvard scene, the latest P. B. H. activity is a "report to end all reports." This is the first publication of its kind at Harvard since Robert Benchley '12 put out a (serious) report in 1910. The current report, in addition to the comparative graphs and juvenile delinquency article, describes P. B. H. facilities and financial organization, and has pictures of 37 agencies with which P. B. H. is connected...