Word: benchleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Somehow or other, it is in his parodies of prominent literary figures that Mr. Benchley outdistances all competition. "The Henna Decade" in five parts, is one of the glories of the group. Part 4 in particular, should bring to even the estimable Mr. Beer a series of not too quiet chuckles. "Milt Gross stood talking with Ring Lardner and another on the steps of the American Indian Museum. He had under his arm a bulbous bundle and this dropped incontinently to the granite pedestal as he shrugged his shoulders. 'A peckage skelps,' he said. 'Heendian skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised...