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...since except during the War, is the oldest college dramatic society in the U. S. Former members include Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard '61, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, Novelist Owen Wister '82, Banker John Pierpont Morgan '89, Radical John Reed '10, Humorist Robert Benchley '12, Producer Vinton Freedley '14, Playwright Robert Sherwood...
This year's show, So Proudly We Hail, had Humorist Benchley's son, Nathaniel, for one of its authors, Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles's son, Benjamin, for another, Producer Freedley's son, Vinton Jr., for female lead. A musical free-for-all, So Proudly We Hail told of Manhattan's café society receding from the U. S., setting up as the monarchy of Cafeteria, forming an unhappy alliance with Mussolini & Hitler. With tunes that didn't seem too reminiscent, chorines that didn't sing too deep, ingénues that...
Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, of Scarsdale, N. Y., has been chosen this year's Ivy Orator by the 1938 Class Day Committee, it was announced last night. Competition between Benchley and Timothy J. Reardon, Jr. '38 was so keen that the committee was unable to choose between the two after Tuesday's trials, and a further one was held yesterday afternoon. Reardon was named as alternate...
...Benchley was president of the Lampoon...
...book is by Nathaniel Benchley, '38, Benjamin Welles, '38, and John Graham, '38. They have pieced together a tale of international intrigue including everyone from Mussolini to Princess Elizabeth. The plot concerns a group of American business men, who, tired of being mere economic royalists, decide to go in for the more traditional form of monarchy, and set up the Kingdom of Cafeteria in the heart of New York, seceding from the Union without causing much stir. But they need support, of course, and hence the dictators and democracies come blustering on to the scene. The treatment of the Rome...