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...them have already had a life of their own: the late famed Whoops Sisters, who appeared four years ago in Manhattan's New Yorker. These two disreputable old harridans, whooping with unseemly mirth at rowdy subtleties, made Artist Arno's reputation. Says Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley, introducing this latest book of Arno drawings: "When they [the Whoops Sisters] bounded, with their muffs and horrid hats, from the pages of the New Yorker, 50 years of picturized joking in this country toppled over with a crash." Now Peter Arno is a New Yorker mainstay, Manhattan's caricaturist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whoops, Dearie! | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...past years he has read from the works of James Stephens, Robert Browning, Stephen Leacock, and Robert Benchley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COPELAND TO GIVE ANNUAL READING AT UNION DEC. 16 | 12/12/1930 | See Source »

...TREASURER'S REPORT AND OTHER ASPECTS OF COMMUNITY SINGING--Benchley (Harpers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BEST SELLERS | 12/12/1930 | See Source »

Jess Sweetser; RobertCharles Benchley ;Donald Ogden Stewart ;Leonard C. Hanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Crusade | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Zoomen | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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