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They called themselves the Vicious Circle, and one day as they trooped out after lunch-Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker, George Kaufman, Bob Benchley, Heywood Broun and the rest-a pressagent paid them his passing respects. "There," said he, "goes the greatest collection of unsalable wit in America." Not too long after, most of them were naming their own prices...
Modeled after the short movies of Robert C. Benchley '12, the film stars. Theodore O. Cron '52, as the frustrated student and Daro Taylor '53 as one of his chief distractions. Ivy Films officials are considering holding a contest to find a title more suitable then the present...
...years since his friends John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Darryl Zanuck, the late Robert Benchley and others lent him $7,500 to go into business, Romanoff's restaurant has become much more than just a place to eat good food. There, Hollywood has clinched its big deals, dreamed its Technicolored dreams, made and broken careers. With its "dress circle" of favored dining booths, Romanoff's is a precise measuring stick of whether a star is rising or falling. Waiting for a table at Romanoff's is a good indication that a star has faded...
...anthology covers the Advocate from 1866 to 1942, and consists mainly of material never published in book form. Other authors include Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Wallace Stevens '01, E. E. Cummings '15, Norman K. Mailer '43, Robert C. Benchley '12, and Professors George Lyman Kittredge '82, Charles T. Copeland '82, Charles T. Copeland '82, and John H. Finley...
...Benchley Festival" accompanies the main feature. To see the comic in "An Evening Alone," "How to Sleep," and "A Night At the Movies" is alone worth a trip to the Beacon Hill...