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...Singing Fool. Al Jolson, Robert Charles Benchley. George Bernard Shaw are the best the sonucinema has offered so far. This is no happy commentary upon 1) cinemactors; 2) sonucinema. Neither Songster Jolson, Funnyman Benchley...
...only famed person whose voice and face have been caught by Movietone. Others: Benito Mussolini, Lloyd George, Edward of Wales, Ferdinand Foch, Raquel Meller, Beatrice Lillie, Vatican Choir, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. Movietone has also produced two excellent comedies: Funnyman Robert Benchley (of Life) in The Treasurer's Report and a piece of suburban folklore called The Family Picnic.* In these, the conversation and the accompanying action-noises run without interruption through the entire film. Many critics believe that comedies and news features are the only entertaining vehicles for the talkies. In full...
...latest number of the Burton Roscoe-ized Bookman the eminent Mr. Benchley, critic of "plays, skating rinks, and the more refined night clubs", dwells at length on what he deems the "best theatrical performance of the month"--the month being November last, and the artist being the young gentleman from New Haven who entertained some fifty thousand people with his convivial antics. This feat avows the self-confessed humorist, was tremendous; and only the captious will counter with...
...remarkable tour de force, that particular example of what Mr. Benchley terms "unconscious exhibitionism". The weather was bitter cold and without that blithe victim of "divine afflatus" the period between halves would have seemed an unnecessary purgatory. But few there were who dreamed that the young man's romp would go down in history--as it has gone down in the Bookman. It was one of those inspired moments; the antique-hatted and cooncoated young gentleman might have expected notices from sports writers and columnists--but a real flesh and blood theatrical reviewer must have been beyond his wildest dreams...
...Dining Room. The subjects to be covered have not yet been announced by Professor Copeland, but may, according to the Union management, include selections from "The Copeland Reader." Last year Professor Copeland read among other things a long poem by Rudyard Kipling and a humorous essay by Robert Benchley...