How to Behave

Two men in a sewer get into an argument over how a gentleman is supposed to behave in various situations. So they phone up famous etiquette specialist Robert Benchley. He proceeds to explain in a manner that confuses even him.

Robert, humorist, Algonquin Hotel habituee, who wrote A TALE OF TWO CITIES before being buried at Westminster Abbey (as he noted in one of his autobiographical sketches) had been doing this sort of routine since he was at Harvard, helping to produce the Lampoon. He carried the act to Broadway, and in 1929 began to appear in sketches of a similar nature, explaining simple things in a bewildering manner. His HOW TO SLEEP won an Oscar in 1935. This one is typically great fun.