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...late Robert Benchley '12 helped to produce three of the best Pudding shows: "Diane's Debut" in 1910, "The Crystal Gazer" in 1911, and "Below Zero" in 1912. "Diana's Debut", the most popular of the three, was a heavy-handed satire on Boston Society. The big song in the play had a famous line, "At Somerset, things were rather...
...humor of the feature is pretty laborious, there are some funny shorts on the bill. In one of them Robert Benchley says funny things about sleeping; and another, Christopher Crumpet's Playmate, has a happy ending. Two are Mr. Magoo. Through two of his wildest endings Magoo remains imperturbable...
...Golden Arm is Frank Sinatra, but the swooning in the picture has nothing to do with singing. Happy dust fills the air as an absorbed audience watches the hero get his, but not in the end. Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak gradually displace the heroin; as a result, Robert Benchley finds himself unable to sleep in a short at Loew's State and Orpheum...
...ROBERT BENCHLEY, by Nafhaniel Benchley (258 pp.; McGraw-Hill; $3.95), is a son's biography of one of the funniest men the U.S. ever produced. No chip off the old block, son Nathaniel rather unsuccessfully relies on love and anecdotes to do what few writers have ever been able to achieve: a funny book on the anatomy of another man's humor...
...thing F.P.A. and Benchley more or less agree: keep women the hell out of the game...