Dr. Benchley lectures the women's club on the unusual but important title-topic.Dr. Benchley lectures the women's club on the unusual but important title-topic.Dr. Benchley lectures the women's club on the unusual but important title-topic.
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- Thomas Chalmers(uncredited)
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- Robert Benchley(uncredited)
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- TriviaBenchley first performed this routine in 1922.
- Quotes
Lecturer: Now the only way in which a polyp resembles other animals at all is that at certain periods of its growth, it does take a sentimental interest in polyps of the... oppositie sex. Now, this presents a very complicated situation as the polyp has no definite sex itself. That is... it's neither one thing or the other. By that I mean the same polyp may be either a boy or a girl according to what or how it happened to feel like being.
- ConnectionsEdited into Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin (1998)
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Entertainingly Offbeat, & Quite Good For Its Time
This is an entertainingly offbeat little comedy that took some chances both with the material and with the then-new capacity of sound in the movies. Robert Benchley's imaginative writing is complemented by his equally imaginative ideas for using visuals and sound, and the result is a short feature that is quite good for the early sound era.
Benchley plays a lecturer visiting a Ladies Club, the kind of role that usually brought out the best in him, since it allows him to use a dryly amusing style that fits well with his writing. Here, the weird topic is a particularly suitable choice for Benchley's writing and speaking. The 'lecturer' also moves back-and-forth between his lectern and a display screen that shows moving pictures of his lab specimens. It's interesting both in creatively using the format and in recreating (and satirizing) the way that a thorough lecturer might well approach the subject.
Benchley's jokes and gag ideas rarely if ever try for the big laugh. Instead, he tries to build up a comic effect through the accumulation of dry and ironic comments or visuals. This is a case where it works very well, and especially so given the limited resources and experience of film-makers in the early sound era.
Benchley plays a lecturer visiting a Ladies Club, the kind of role that usually brought out the best in him, since it allows him to use a dryly amusing style that fits well with his writing. Here, the weird topic is a particularly suitable choice for Benchley's writing and speaking. The 'lecturer' also moves back-and-forth between his lectern and a display screen that shows moving pictures of his lab specimens. It's interesting both in creatively using the format and in recreating (and satirizing) the way that a thorough lecturer might well approach the subject.
Benchley's jokes and gag ideas rarely if ever try for the big laugh. Instead, he tries to build up a comic effect through the accumulation of dry and ironic comments or visuals. This is a case where it works very well, and especially so given the limited resources and experience of film-makers in the early sound era.
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- Snow Leopard
- Dec 18, 2005
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- Половая жизнь полипа
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- Runtime11 minutes
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- 1.20 : 1
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