Review - A Few Robert Benchley Quotes To Pass The Time
by Kristin Salaky
- Jan 31, 2008
'Me Benchley. Benchley bad boy. Benchley go.'
Theatre critic and Algonquin Round Table founding member Robert Benchley was heard muttering the above words as he got up from his chair and walked out in the middle of the opening night performance of Jean Bart's 1926 Broadway play, The Squall. What prompted his departure was that Suzanne Caubet, playing the role of a gypsy girl who spends the entire evening speaking in a cartoonish broken English, had just uttered the line, 'Me Nubi. Nubi good girl. Nubi stay.'
