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...Editor Anthony was a short story contest, with $5,000 offered in prizes for the best stories published during 1929. They are to be very short-not more than 700 words. The judges are to be Ray Long, editor of Cosmopolitan; Merle Crowell, editor of American Magazine; and Robert Benchley, who survived the avalanche as associate editor of Life...
Professor Copeland's program will consist of "Desire," a sketch by James Stephens, and selections from the works of Robert Browning. Stephen Leacock, and Robert Benchley...
...baby, under the care of men like E. S. Martin '77, and Owen Wister '82, Lampy was the best-behaved little creature you ever saw. He grew up safely into manhood under Gluyas Williams '11 and Robert Benchley '12. There wasn't a whisper against his reputation until he was about forty, and then...
Though his selections have not yet been announced. Professor Copeland will read among other thing stories, and poems appropriate to the Christmas season. Last year the reading contained selections from "The Copeland Reader," including "The 'Eathen" by Rudyard Kipling, and "Christmas Afternoon," by Robert Benchley...
Mimographer Shaw is a cinemactor, yet no cinemactor, no cinemactress has so ably combined appearance with utterance as have Jolson, Benchley, Shaw. Jolson, of course, is the lone member of the trio who has gone to any film length and observers noted that neither of his two operas (The Jazz Singer, The. Singing Fool) has been all-talk. Both have been all-sound. If Jolson, whose singing can lift a drooping piece, has not been permitted to do an all-talk piece, it is obvious that a lesser player, unable to break into song, must falter when the piece itself...