In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I consider Robert Benchley's work as a drama critic. Here'a an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Few things are so fleeting as the fame of a professional humorist. In the '20s and '30s, Robert Benchley was one of America's best-known comic writers, a founder of the Algonquin Round Table who published essay collections with facetious titles like "My Ten Years in a Quandary…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM on April 28, 2020