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...followed the Queen's lead. In the '90s, Spalding's published a book on poker written by A. Howard Cady. The publisher mercifully concealed the fact that the "A" stood for Alice. The girls are still a problem. In Ladies Wild, they get the complete Robert Benchley treatment. "The next hand was to be Whistle Up Your Windpipe . . . seven-card stud, first and last cards up, deuces, treys, and red-haired queens wild, high-low-and-medium...
...building's centennial in 1912, 1200 invitations were sent to residents past and present. After receptions in each of Holworthy's suites, a highly jovial crowd marched to a festive dinner at which Professor Kittredge was toastmaster, two original poems were presented, and a senior named R. C. Benchley '12 read a parody on the "apocryphal recollections of an old graduate...
...selections are indicative of Potter's good taste and wide reading, but of little else. It is a tribute to Potter's prestige that such a book has been published and sold. I think now that he has broken the ice that we may expect a "From Bunyan to Benchley" from S. J. Perelman, and soon after that, "Two-Line Jokes Which I Have Liked Best," by Bob Hope...
...appliance field (e.g., washing machines that shredded dresses; refrigerators with unmovable ice cubes). The filmed portion of the show included a lively excerpt from Tom Sawyer (the scene where Tom dupes his friends into whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence); an old but still very funny Robert Benchley short about the care and feeding of infants, and the dramatization of an inspirational John Steinbeck story, starring Brandon de Wilde and Walter Brennan...
...reviewer is tempted to say that here is some of the best of Benchley-ana, if he were not afraid that the master would descend from among the happier angels, and write off a little piece called "--Anas, Their Use and Function...