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...list of students with whom "Charlie" was acquainted reads like a Who's Who. Franklin Roosevelt, for instance, and "all his dam kids." Then there is Leverett Saltonstall, Felix Frankfurter, Robert Benchley, Arthur Holcombe, Joe Kennedy, Archy Davison, and "Jim" Conant...
...Millionairess. Said he: "I have a life work-one hit after another- only ready for me to make." The Reluctant Dragon (Disney-RKO-Radio) is billed as Walt Disney's fourth full-length cartoon movie. Actually, it is two and a half Disney shorts with Comic Robert Benchley and a conducted tour through the Disney works thrown in for good measure. Unlike its renowned predecessors (Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia} it does not vastly expand the wonderful dreamworld which has flowed for 13 years from the inspired cartoonist's imagination...
Through the eyes of Mr. Benchley, as he stumbles through the Disney plant, Disneyacs can peek briefly into the bag of goodies in store for them. There are glimpses of a forthcoming full-length cartoon about a baby circus elephant named Dumbo whose enormous ears mortify him to tears until he becomes an overnight sensation by learning to fly with them; of another full-lengther, Bambi, and its leading man, a little white-tailed fawn; of Donald Duck down on the farm...
...remainder of the program is a hodge-podge of Information Please, Robert Benchley, Donald Duck, the FBI, and Mrs. Roosevelt...
Hollywood puts out a type of comedy that lies somewhere in between the Marx Brothers' slapstick and the more subtle personality humor of the late Will Rogers or the present Bob Benchley. This in-between brand depends mostly on a tricky plot and rapid dialogue, and has lately been dished out in large quantities by the Rosalind Russell-Cary grant team...