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...Robert Benchley'(Sun. 10 p. m., CBS) supplies the madness for Old Gold's Melody and Madness program, his first radio series. Melody by Baritone Dick Todd, Clarinetist Artie Shaw's orchestra...
Apparently intended chiefly as Actor Powell's parole from musical pictures, Hard to Get contains only two songs, for elaborate orchestration substitutes a use of acrophobia unsurpassed since Harold Lloyd's Safety Last. Good sequence: Arthur Housman, ablest rival to Robert Benchley in the cinematic portrayal of amiable intoxication, trying to stand up in a crowded subway...
Principal feature of the Stadium program will be the Ivy Oration, given this year by Nathaniel G. Benchley, of Scarsdale, New York. At the conclusion of Benchley's talk, and following the transferal of colors to the Freshman class, the confetti battle gets under...
Manhattan's Theatre Arts Committee, composed of such Broadwayites as Robert Benchley, Jed Harris, Lillian Hellman, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles, is not friendly to fascism. On three fronts- theatre, cinema, radio-it has been making anti-fascist lunges for all it is worth. The committee's latest enterprise is TAC, a midnight cabaret presented on Mondays at Manhattan's weatherbeaten Chez Firehouse. In a free-&-easy atmosphere of cigarets and drinks, audiences can watch a revue modeled after Pins and Needles and possessing much of its muscular merit...