Word: benchleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Benchley'(Sun. 10 p. m., CBS) supplies the madness for Old Gold's Melody and Madness program, his first radio series. Melody by Baritone Dick Todd, Clarinetist Artie Shaw's orchestra...
Principal feature of the Stadium program will be the Ivy Oration, given this year by Nathaniel G. Benchley, of Scarsdale, New York. At the conclusion of Benchley's talk, and following the transferal of colors to the Freshman class, the confetti battle gets under...
Manhattan's Theatre Arts Committee, composed of such Broadwayites as Robert Benchley, Jed Harris, Lillian Hellman, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles, is not friendly to fascism. On three fronts- theatre, cinema, radio-it has been making anti-fascist lunges for all it is worth. The committee's latest enterprise is TAC, a midnight cabaret presented on Mondays at Manhattan's weatherbeaten Chez Firehouse. In a free-&-easy atmosphere of cigarets and drinks, audiences can watch a revue modeled after Pins and Needles and possessing much of its muscular merit...
...since except during the War, is the oldest college dramatic society in the U. S. Former members include Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard '61, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, Novelist Owen Wister '82, Banker John Pierpont Morgan '89, Radical John Reed '10, Humorist Robert Benchley '12, Producer Vinton Freedley '14, Playwright Robert Sherwood...
This year's show, So Proudly We Hail, had Humorist Benchley's son, Nathaniel, for one of its authors, Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles's son, Benjamin, for another, Producer Freedley's son, Vinton Jr., for female lead. A musical free-for-all, So Proudly We Hail told of Manhattan's café society receding from the U. S., setting up as the monarchy of Cafeteria, forming an unhappy alliance with Mussolini & Hitler. With tunes that didn't seem too reminiscent, chorines that didn't sing too deep, ingénues that...