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Elsewhere in a world whose humor had turned to New Yorker sophistication (which Ade liked), and to the staccato gag-making of the Red Skeltons, Jack Bennys and Bob Hopes (which he disliked), George Ade was an almost forgotten name. Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that Humorist Bob Benchley had to repair to the Stork Club to forget, after hearing a CBS announcer tell about the death of "the Indiana writer, George...
Among the score of Broadway greats who received their first training in the theatre as members of the Club are Robert Benchley '12, author, humorist, and actor, John Mason Brown '23, who now is a top-notch critic, and Leo Simonson '08, a famous designer...
Funniest shot: a monologue by Hargrove's girl's paunchy father (Robert Benchley), who buzzes away about his experiences in World War I while baffled Private Hargrove tries to get in a word...
...yesteryear and a triple threat at that. Another famed Harvard character is "Copey" Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Annually he attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman, Robert Benchley '12, and many more...
...sheer weight of the names on the marquee is enough to sweep you into Keith's Memorial this week. And the movie endeavours mightily to give you your money's worth by presenting three tales of the supernatural against a very agreeable background of Benchley...