Robert Benchley  was one of the most popular humorists of the 20’s and 30’s. As a columnist for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, Benchley’s columns ranged from topical to absurd and covered subjects from Broadway to bricklaying.
Love Conquers All
The Record is proud to post Robert Benchley’s Love Conquers All. This book was originally published in 1922 and contains short humor written by Benchley for Life, The New York World, The New York Tribune, The Detroit Athletic Club News, and The Consolidated Press Association. The pieces in this collection range from bridge to kids to the tragedy of a missing hat.
Contents
- Title Page and Acknowledgments
- The Benchley-Whittier Correspondence
- Family Life in America
- This Child Knows the Answer – Do You?
- Rules and Suggestions for Watching Auction Bridge
- A Christmas Spectacle
- How to Watch a Chess-match
- Watching Baseball
- How to be a Spectator at Spring Planting
- The Manhattador
- What to do While the Family is Away
- “Roll Your Own”
- Do Insects Think?
- The Score in the Stands
- Mid-winter Sports
- Reading the Funnies Aloud
- Opera Synopses
- The Young Idea’s Shooting Gallery
- Polyp with a Past
- Holt! Who Goes There?
- The Committee on the Whole
- Noting an Increase in Bigamy
- The Real Wiglaf – Man and Monarch
- Facing the Boys’ Camp Problem
- All About the Silesian Problem
- “Happy the Home Where Books Are Found”
- When Not in Rome, Why Do as the Romans Did?
- The Tooth, The Whole Tooth, and Nothing But the Tooth
- Malignant Mirrors
- The Power of the Press
- Home for the Holidays
- How to Understand International Finance
- Twas the Night Before Summer
- Welcome Home – and Shut Up!
- Animal Stories – I
- Animal Stories – II
- The Tariff Unmasked
- Literary Department
- “Take Along a Book”
- Confessions of a Chess Champion
- “Rip Van Winkle”
- Literary Lost and Found Department
- “Old Black Tillie”
- “Victor Hugo’s Death”
- “I’m Sorry That I Spelt the Word”
- “God’s in His Heaven”
- “She Dwelt Beside”
- “The Golden Wedding”
- Answers
- “Dark Water”
- The New Time-Table
- Mr. Bok’s Americanization
- Zane Grey’s Movie
- Suppressing “Jurgen”
- Anti-Ibáñez
- On Bricklaying
- “American Anniversaries”
- A Week-end with Wells
- About Portland Cement
- Open Bookcases
- Trout-fishing
- “Scouting for Girls”
- How to Sell Goods
- “You!”
- The Catalogue School
- Effective House Organs
- Advice to Writers
- “The Effective Speaking Voice”
- Those Dangerously Dynamic British Girls
- Books and Other Things
- “Measure Your Mind”
- The Brow-Elevation in Humor
- Business Letters
- Notes