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WITH all due respect to Happy Bob Benchley, the Baker's Boy, one does get just the trace of an idea that he really is going from Bed to Worse these days. Nonsense combined with satire can be made to be extremely funny and Our Bob, as we used affectionately to call him, was able to make it so in the good old days. But recently one has the feeling that perhaps these depression years are getting him down, if not possibly out. Some of the little bits in the book rally the old savoir to their cause, but there...
...whole, though one gets the feeling that old Honest Bob, the people's friend, still can see what needs satirical comment, but has a hard time trying to write it. His nonsense falls just the least bit flat, but its a case of where a little goes a long way. He sees the faults of the day's work, but he sees them too obviously and the result is one which even the Gluyas Williams drawings have a hard time counteracting...
...drafting entertainers from other departments of the drama, frail Linda Watkins (June Moon) finds herself cast as an ingenue in a musical piece for the first time. Lillian Emerson, another legitimate actress, is teamed with Harry Richman, the only man on Broadway who can lisp without exciting suspicion. Bob Hope, the irrepressible juvenile of Roberta, displays a pretty wit. And as a freak draw the management has hired Impostor Harry Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), who made a vaudeville appearance last year after a session in jail climaxed a series of transatlantic voyages in stowage. He impersonates himself...
...even in the line Casey and Walsh are considering making changes. The tackles, especially, are being overhauled and may be changed before the outbreak of hostilities in the Yale Bowl. Bob Watson at right tackle and Ed Simmons at left are two second string men who have been coming very fast during the last few weeks and may succeed in pushing out the experienced pair of Bill Burton and Mike Adlis. Then, at left guard, Frank Schumann is threatening the berth hitherto filled alternately by Bob Brookings and Bill Lane. All three of these up-and-coming substitutes have...
...backfield the same thing is happening as such veterans as Chet Litman and Fergie Locke are being pushed into the background by Johnny Adzigian, Braman Gibbs, and a host of Sophomores. Elley Jackson, Freddy Moseley, and Bob Haley are three old-timers who are sure of jobs if no injuries intervene between now and November 24, but Moseley will probably not be used for the full 60 minutes even if his physical condition warrants it, and that, with the now unoccupied right half back position, leaves two places to be filled for a time at least by such promising material...