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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program has not yet been announced. Last year Professor Copeland read from the works of James Stephens, Robert Browning, Stephen Leacock, and Robert Benchley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. COPELAND WILL GIVE ANNUAL READING ON DEC. 17 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...editor of Life, weekly funny magazine. Cartoonist Crosby is not, has never been, a staff member of Life. Last week Life announced the appointment of Oscar Odd ("O. O.") Mclntyre, popular syndicate columnist (New York Day by Day), as dramatic critic. He succeeds famed Funster Robert C. Benchley, who leaves, after nine years, to devote himself to the talking cinema. Said departing Critic Benchley: "Any change would be for the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA OR DAVID COPPERFIELD-Robert Benchley-Holt ($2). Little rambles with Life's funnyman, one of them serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mention- Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Burlesque. Three weeks before this smashing climax in the Byrd Expedition, Funnyman Robert Benchley had done a piece for The New Yorker, burlesquing crack Reporter Owen. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Jolly Place | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Editor Anthony was a short story contest, with $5,000 offered in prizes for the best stories published during 1929. They are to be very short-not more than 700 words. The judges are to be Ray Long, editor of Cosmopolitan; Merle Crowell, editor of American Magazine; and Robert Benchley, who survived the avalanche as associate editor of Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Life, New Laughs | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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