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Guest Robert Benchley ( )

Duffy's Tavern · November 10, 1944 · 29 min · 3,044 words

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Hello, Duppies, Tavin' what do you like me? See, don't you mind just making Duppy, ain't here? Oh, look, Duppy, tonight, Bob Benchley, the noted actor, writer, witten, racqueteer. Huh? I'm movie actor. Yeah, works in shorts.

Duppy, that is an old joke. Yeah, the guy's got a great kiss of a comedy, Duppy. Looks sort of like a surprise cantaloupe. Yeah, yeah, that's the guy. That's right. This first picture was called How to Sleep.

That's what he should have called his other ones, though. Well, he's kind of speak at the party tonight. I only forgot to tell you, you know, Bob Graham, the kid that's been singing here, yeah, well, I'm giving a big party to launch him. Well, you know, our party, somebody's bound to concom with a bottle. So hot, the

The guy's a cronary won't even notice it. Well, try to get down here, Duffy, and, uh, by the way, uh, where's she was? There's gonna be dancing. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Duffy's Tavern.

Come in and meet Finnegan, any of the waiters. Miss Duffy, our singer Bob Graham, Rethbeat Reeves and his orchestra, our special guest tonight, Robert Pinsley, and Archie himself, Ed Garker. Wait a second. What that you want?

a reservation. A reservation here. Now, just come down if you find a chair that ain't busted, it's yours. Say it again. How does this sound? Tuffy's Tavern launches no singer. What is that? It's a publicity store.

I'm right. It's a place to all the newspapers. Tonight at Tuffy's Tavern, Mr. Bob Graham, a new vocal chantos, was introduced with great grand prayer and condolences to 30 Avenue Society. This body a bit too wide I call them.

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