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...other, it is in his parodies of prominent literary figures that Mr. Benchley outdistances all competition. "The Henna Decade" in five parts, is one of the glories of the group. Part 4 in particular, should bring to even the estimable Mr. Beer a series of not too quiet chuckles. "Milt Gross stood talking with Ring Lardner and another on the steps of the American Indian Museum. He had under his arm a bulbous bundle and this dropped incontinently to the granite pedestal as he shrugged his shoulders. 'A peckage skelps,' he said. 'Heendian skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised a thermal...

Author: By J. H. S. ., | Title: THE EARLY WORM. By Robert Benchley '12. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1927. $2.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...more than good: he was better. Although his diction shows contact with chronic dyspepsia, his range is excellent. In truth when he eclipsed high C. I. was ready to compare him with the Romanticists of the Early Pleistocene. Nor does he lack gesture. He should illustrate for Milt Gross. His name? I think it is Sheridan. And like his great namesake he has rivals...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

...readers with a tense drama, the scene of which is laid on a bath mat. Very few Englishmen, however, and very few Victorians would see any humor in Mr. Lardner. And similarly with Donald Ogden Stewart, Robert Benchley--although he is more universal than the rest--and Milt Gross. The fact that there are at least five magazines who make a business of culling their material from the files of university and college publications all over the nation would appear to prove that college with is also American win. The scope of Humor is sufficiently broad to include more than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW HUMOR | 12/4/1926 | See Source »

...Milt Gross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME NOTABLE FALL BOOKS | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...Milt Gross needs no introduction, nor, for that matter, does Hiawatta. But the meeting of these two celebrities is memorable. Hiawatta becomes an epic of Indian Nize Babyhood, in the steam heated "appotament" tepee on the shores of Geetchy Goony (pronounced Bronix...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME NOTABLE FALL BOOKS | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

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