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...Jesus Parade." With a few others, including such well known regulars as Alexander Woollcott and Robert Benchley, that staff has survived the frequent eruptions of its volcanic editor. In addition the last six years have witnessed the parade of 16 "Executive Editors" whom Editor Ross has successively hired in a mad search for System. The procedure is invariable: Ross finds a new genius at a cocktail party or on a newspaper or in an advertising agency, promptly installs him as Executive Editor. Oldtimers on the staff refer to the luckless incumbent as "Jesus." For a few weeks, perhaps...
...Dramatic Club will give four one-act plays in Boston next week: "The Horse Thieves" and "Five in the Morning" by Hermann Hagedorn '07, "The Heart of the Irishman," and "Death and the Dicers." Robert Benchley '13, played Reverend Clinch in "The Horse Thieves" and Teague O'Regan in "The Heart of the Irishman...
Died. Le Baron Russell Briggs, 79, longtime Harvard clean & English professor; suddenly, of a heart ailment; while visiting his daughter in Milwaukee. Famed as a teacher of writing, he taught: Earl Derr Biggers, E. E. Cummings, Joseph Auslander, John Dos Passes, Frederick Lewis Allen, Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley...
...than those used for similar purposes by Buddy Rogers in Take a Chance. In her serious characterization of Janie Barlow as an inspired, warm-hearted runaway angel, Joan Crawford makes thoroughly apparent the fact that she is now abler as an actress than as a dancer. Good shots: Robert Benchley as a Broadway colyumist, languidly asking for a pencil; the start of Dancing Lady's flashiest musical number, with Fred Astaire going through routines which Joan Crawford tries to follow...
...readers of Without Music should be expected to echo the comment of Robert Benchley in his introduction: ". . . It makes me feel better about having laughed so loud at Dwight Fiske in night clubs. I always have had a suspicion that I was drunk. Now I know that I was merely appreciative...