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From those who like their Shakespeare, as Mr. Benchley would say, the repertoire offered by Fritz Leiber has been a gift from heaven. Not only has the Bard been presented with more or less respect to the text but the prices have been on a scale proportionate to the student pocketbook. Seats in the orchestra are for once not entirely prohibitive...
...thought, I suppose, that it was clever to print not a photograph of Robert Benchley but one of Gluyas Williams' cartoons of him (TIME, July 25). You ought to know that everyone has seen dozens of cartoons of Benchley, whereas not one of his admirers in a million has seen his photograph...
...have read Life for years, swear by Benchley's theatre reviews, read his books - and yet I have never seen a photograph...
...EARLY WORM-Robert Benchley and Gluyas Williams-Holt ($2). The spice of Life...
...EARLY WORM?Robert Benchley (Illustrated by Gluyas Williams)?Holt ($2). Funnyman Benchley's creek of comedy has by no means yet run dry. He babbles gently on in parody of Sherwood Anderson, H. G. Wells, Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Beer, polar expeditions, founding a night club, interviewing celebrities, solving crimes, stabilizing francs. His method of reductio ad imbecillum is to expound a subject in its simplest terms, putting caricaturist's emphasis on one or two superficial details. Example: "According to Dr. Max Hartmann . . . there is no such thing as absolute sex. If 60% of your cells are masculine you rate...