Word: benchleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with cramped working quarters and a small theatre. Professor Baker in 1925 accepted Yale's offer to run its luxurious new $125,000 theatre and drama school. He retired in 1933. Some Baker students: Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Winthrop Ames, Robert Edmond Jones, Robert Benchley, Rollo Peters, Percy Mackaye, Donald Oenslager, Van Wyck Brooks...
WITH all due respect to Happy Bob Benchley, the Baker's Boy, one does get just the trace of an idea that he really is going from Bed to Worse these days. Nonsense combined with satire can be made to be extremely funny and Our Bob, as we used affectionately to call him, was able to make it so in the good old days. But recently one has the feeling that perhaps these depression years are getting him down, if not possibly out. Some of the little bits in the book rally the old savoir to their cause, but there...
First boat--Stroke, Meyer; 7, Evans; 6, Bainbridge; 5, Benchley; 4, Scott, P. L.; 3, Scott, R. L.; 2, Hamill; Bow, Leighton; Cox, Valentine. Second boat--Stroke, McClennan; 7, Sargent; 6, Hickox; 5, Browne, S. D.; 4, Horner; 3, Lewis; 2, Ogilby; Bow, Davis; Cox, Gitt. Third boat--Stroke, Bennett; 7, Ware; 6, Lambert; 5, Brown, W. H.; Kernan, R.; 3, Lawrence; 2, Marshall; Bow, Kernan, H. Cox, Boyd...
...Jesus Parade." With a few others, including such well known regulars as Alexander Woollcott and Robert Benchley, that staff has survived the frequent eruptions of its volcanic editor. In addition the last six years have witnessed the parade of 16 "Executive Editors" whom Editor Ross has successively hired in a mad search for System. The procedure is invariable: Ross finds a new genius at a cocktail party or on a newspaper or in an advertising agency, promptly installs him as Executive Editor. Oldtimers on the staff refer to the luckless incumbent as "Jesus." For a few weeks, perhaps...
...Dramatic Club will give four one-act plays in Boston next week: "The Horse Thieves" and "Five in the Morning" by Hermann Hagedorn '07, "The Heart of the Irishman," and "Death and the Dicers." Robert Benchley '13, played Reverend Clinch in "The Horse Thieves" and Teague O'Regan in "The Heart of the Irishman...