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Benchley in VeniceWhile visiting Venice for the first time, Robert Benchley sent a gag telegram to Harold Ross, his editor at The New Yorker. "Streets full of water," the cable read. "Please advise."
[Venice was colonized as the Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th Century when Goths and Vandals drove inhabitants to seek sanctuary on a swampy lagoon. The refugees believed that the islands were so unappealing that the invaders would simply leave them alone.]
Benchley, Robert Charles (1889-1945) American writer and humorist, member of the famed Algonquin Round Table of New York wits [noted for his Dramatic Criticism and for such various works as The Benchley Roundup, Love Conquers All, Benchley Lost and Found : Thirty-Nine Prodigal Pieces, Inside Benchley, Chips Off the Old Benchley, My Ten Years in a Quandary and Penguin Psychology]
[Sources: N. Rees, Quote, Unquote]More Robert Benchley anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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