Robert Benchley. It was his air of puzzled uncertainty which made American theatres rock with laughter every time Robert Benchley appeared on the scre(...)

Original Toronto Star caption: Robert Benchley. It was his air of puzzled uncertainty which made American theatres rock with laughter every time Robert Benchley appeared on the screen. He was always the little man himself. Benchley; whose first job; incongruously enough; was in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and who once wrote obituaries for the New York Tribune; was principal actor in several celebrated hoaxes. [Incomplete]