Mae West: Robert Benchley

MAE WEST got her share of negative reviews from critic Robert Benchley. However, he and Zora Neale Hurston were two of a very small group of writers who had favorable things to say about "Sex."
• • Benchley's comments about Mae's show at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre appeared in Life Magazine on 20 May I926 (the month after the premiere) — — though his byline during the 1920s is more commonly associated with The New Yorker.
• • Born in New England on 15 September 1889, Robert Charles Benchley was a humorist, journalist, and (briefly) a screen actor cast in minor roles in Hollywood. He attended Harvard and became part of the "vicious circle" presided over by Dorothy Parker at the Algonquin Hotel. Like Mrs. Parker, he was an alcoholic.
• • Cirrhosis of the liver — — aggravated by his drinking — — contributed to Robert Benchley's death at age 56 on 21 November 1945.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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