https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64-15TwZnJU A few years ago Kino International put out a great DVD collection called The Paramount Comedy Shorts 1928-1942: Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin. To help promote it, the company has uploaded a little of a Robert Benchley short film, “How to Take A Vacation.” This is great stuff. Now you can…
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Algonquin $10,000 Martini is International News
The Algonquin Hotel made international news this week after they unveiled their $10,000 martini. Included in all news is Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table. Congratulations go out to GM Anthony Melchiorri and Quinn & Company, the hotel’s crack PR firm. Here is the story from Reuters & CNN: New York hotel offers $10,000…
Benchley Films Unspooling in Beantown
We hear the Robert Benchley Society is at it again with their first event of the new year. Society President David Trumbull writes: You are invited to an EVENING of Robert BENCHLEY’S Hollywood SHORT SUBJECTS. WHO: Mr. Chris Morgan of the “We’ve Come for the Davenport” (Boston) chapter of the Robert Benchley Society invites you…
Benchley’s Best Top 10 List
Just in time for the holidays, we got a message from David Trumbull from The Robert Benchley Society in Cambridge. The Robert Benchley Society announces a “top ten” list of humorous holiday readings.The list includes two pieces by Mr. Benchley along with eight other humor authors.Members of the Robert Benchley Society suggested readings for the…
Weekend of Parker Excess a Success at Parkerfest 03
NEW YORK — One of Dorothy Parker’s friends, New York World editor Herbert Bayard Swope, once said, “I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” Swope knew a thing or two about hosting big parties, and he would…
Make it a Benchley Night; Blast from the Past
There is a great video now on sale in the Book Shop that captures on film three of the key members of the Algonquin Round Table: Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and Donald Ogden Stewart. Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin is a must-have for fans of the Gonk. The video is a compilation…