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April/May 1986. Volume. 37. Issue. 3. Early in 1939 Robert Charles Benchley—Phillips Exeter Academy, 1908; Harvard, 1912—put on a paper hat and hoisted himself up onto a set of phony telephone wires strung between mock utility poles on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sound stage in Hollywood. He was filming one of the ten-minute comedies that were ...
Robert Benchley Satirizes Science The 1920s and 1930s gave rise to new forms of popular humor, humor with a sophisticated edge drawn from a more prosperous, cosmopolitan urban experience. In New York, a circle of urbane humorists with a national audience rose around the New Yorker magazine and the famous “Algonquin Round Table,” an informal ...
Robert Benchley. I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. Robert Benchley. Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment. Robert Benchley. The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. Robert Benchley.
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Nov 21, 2020 · Seventy-five years ago today, hard-working Robert Charles Benchley died in his hospital room. He was just 56 years old. Benchley, once the country’s premier humorist, had stayed active until the end. In 1933, he began his first radio show, broadcast on CBS. He also appeared in 46 movie shorts between 1928 and 1945.
The Writings of Robert Benchley. Benchley, Robert. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, or David Copperfield. Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1928. 40 Benchley essays previously published in The Bookman, The Detroit Athletic Club News, The Forum, Life, The New Yorker, and The Yale Review. 233 pages; drawings by Gluyas Williams.
罗伯特·查尔斯·本奇利（英語： Robert Charles Benchley ，1889年9月15日—1945年11月21日），是美国的幽默作家，知名的电影演员，《生活》、《纽约客》杂志的评论家。 作品 《所有的事》（1921年） 《如何睡觉》（1935年） 《我不知所措的十年》（1936年）
