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Bride in 1931. Jock Whitney's literary cronies are Donald Ogden Stewart and Robert Benchley, who spend most of their time in Hollywood. In Hollywood, Jock Whitney met RKO's production chief, Merian Caldwell Cooper, who talked enthusiastically about Technicolor as the next great revolution in the cinema industry. Color was the incentive Jock Whitney needed. He and his cousin bought 15%-about $1,000,000 worth-of Technicolor Inc., organized Pioneer to make color films for RKO release...
There's nothing new, even in theatre critics. Mr. Benchley's commentary on "Mourning Becomes Electra" was a dirge over his own tired extremities. Was it not Sthenodes who rushed from the Theatre of Dionysus, crying "hoigar tephaloi" ("my buttocks hurt...
...with cramped working quarters and a small theatre. Professor Baker in 1925 accepted Yale's offer to run its luxurious new $125,000 theatre and drama school. He retired in 1933. Some Baker students: Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Winthrop Ames, Robert Edmond Jones, Robert Benchley, Rollo Peters, Percy Mackaye, Donald Oenslager, Van Wyck Brooks...
WITH all due respect to Happy Bob Benchley, the Baker's Boy, one does get just the trace of an idea that he really is going from Bed to Worse these days. Nonsense combined with satire can be made to be extremely funny and Our Bob, as we used affectionately to call him, was able to make it so in the good old days. But recently one has the feeling that perhaps these depression years are getting him down, if not possibly out. Some of the little bits in the book rally the old savoir to their cause, but there...
First boat--Stroke, Meyer; 7, Evans; 6, Bainbridge; 5, Benchley; 4, Scott, P. L.; 3, Scott, R. L.; 2, Hamill; Bow, Leighton; Cox, Valentine. Second boat--Stroke, McClennan; 7, Sargent; 6, Hickox; 5, Browne, S. D.; 4, Horner; 3, Lewis; 2, Ogilby; Bow, Davis; Cox, Gitt. Third boat--Stroke, Bennett; 7, Ware; 6, Lambert; 5, Brown, W. H.; Kernan, R.; 3, Lawrence; 2, Marshall; Bow, Kernan, H. Cox, Boyd...