Word: benchleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert C. Benchley, literary buffoon of the brightest motley, is deserting the third row, aisle (critic's seat) for the opposite side of the footlights. It became public property last week that Life's theatrical commentator has accepted an engagement with the forthcoming Music Box Revue...
...humorists?Cobb, Adams, Benchley, Connelly, Broun, Stewart...
...done that; but, after all, his humor is Brobdingnagian. It partakes of brown gravy, and of cream puffs thrown wantonly. F. P. A. is occasionally human, though at times he seems to become the war sage looking at life through the war glasses of an ironist. Robert C. Benchley is almost human. Perhaps if I could see him weep once, I should actually believe in his humanity. Thomas Masson is human; but his humor is the genial story. He is the raconteur. He is not a nifty hound like Marc Connelly, nor a worshiper of the sentimentally bizarre like Heywood...
...Eliot as the greatest modern American poet, his vogue is vanishing amid an incessant attack and counterblast of the younger literati themselves. The authors of The Forty-Niners (recent dramatic fiasco) eat lunch four times a week with the young critics, but they did not save Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Marc Connolly, and Ring Lardner from a sound critical lashing. Heywood Broun's novel The Boy Grew Older was enthusiastically welcomed by the older and more conventional reviewers, but Broun's friends ridiculed and disparaged it as viciously as if it had been written by Zane Grey...
...venture of the Dramatic Club in making this trip has occasioned much interest in New York dramatic circles, and many prominent men connected with theatrical work have given it their cordial approval. Among these are Mr. Winthrop Ames '95, Mr. Lewis Beach '13, Mr. R. C. Benchley '12, Mr. Heywood Broun, Mr. Owen Davis, Mr. R. E. Jones '10, Mr. Kenneth Macgowan '11, Mr. Percy MacKaye '97. Mr. Eugene O'Neill, Mr. Hubert Osborne, Mr. H. T. Parker, Mr. Edward Sheldon '07, Mr. Lee Simonson '09, and Mr. Maurice Wertheim...