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...weeks: Ray Middleton sang Maxwell Anderson's How Can You Tell An American; the editor of the Randolph (Vt.) weekly Herald and News reported the first Vermont freeze, announced that the local cider mill was open for business; Raymond Massey recited from Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Bob Benchley skitted through a shopping trip; Joe Cook imitated his three Hawaiians; Novelist Carl Carmer (The Hudson, Listen for a Lonesome Drum), countrywide correspondent for Pursuit of Happiness, reported the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Hartford Courant, the latest folklore on rattlesnakes...
Sole remaining feature of the old magazine is the St. Nicholas League, a department for child contributors. Started in 1900, the League published early stories, poems and drawings by Robert Benchley, Stephen Vincent Benét, Robert Edmond Jones, Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...first movie, two years ago, was "Live, Love, and Learn," made with Benchley, Robert Montgomery, and Rosalind Russell. "Benchley fell flat on his face and lay there dead drunk when he first came in, and when I entered, my trousers fell down and Montgomery drenched me with a bucket of water," recalled Woolley...
Acting is a comparatively new experience for him; since college he has spent most of his time directing, Woolley remarked. Ten years ago he directed Cole Porter's "Fifty Million Frenchmen" in Boston. Cole Porter was his best friend at Yale, and Bob Benchley his side-kick while at Harvard...
...Gentlemen in attendance" signing this Dutch-treat invitation included such prime Hollywood good fellows as Robert Benchley, James Cagney, Charles Chaplin, Gary Grant, Mark Hellinger, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Robert Riskin, Edward G. Robinson, Randolph Scott, et al., to the number...