Word: benchleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the site of the orations was shifted from Sanders Theatre to the Stadium in 1905, they have lost whatever serious tone they had retained up to that time. In 1910 humorist Frank Sullivan was the Ivy Orator, and was followed two years later by Robert Benchley...
Best-known among Broadway's newspaper critics (not including magazine critics such as Robert Benchley, George Jean Nathan, Joseph Wood Krutch, who are also members of the Critics' Circle...
...business but radio the loss of a million and a half account would be a crusher, but to NBC it was just an unhappy horse trade. NBC lost Amos 'n' Andy, but promptly picked off the Robert Benchley-Artie Shaw Old Gold show, a Sunday night half-hour that was bringing CBS $10,830 weekly. This becomes an NBC show beginning...
...feature to their programs, but that in itself is no indication of the limited possibilities of short features. As soon as Hollywood stops sending out grade "e" concoctions and produces some well done athletic, scientific, or humorous features, the newsreel theatres may find themselves very popular. Walt Disney, Robert Benchley, and Time Magazine have already demonstrated the possibilities of the fifteen minute film, but the ghastly fillers must be removed before theatres like the new Telepix can be sure of success...
Notes between the notes: Truly magnificent swing criticism is advanced in a mildly insane article by Robert Benchley in the February issue of Listener's Digest entitled, "Swing: It Origin and Development." Sample quote: "I feel particularly fitted to discuss swing music, because I can't carry a tune either." . . . Recommended to those swing fans who specialize in trying to find unrecognized good jazz is Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans on Decca's race record series. The band cut Chick Webb and gave Basic a good scare . . The second of the Goodman bands to leave the mother organization (Harry James...