How to Read

If you're familiar with Robert Benchley's series of shorts for MGM, you know that he offers advice and commentary on some subject that renders it not only easy, but impossible. That's what he does here.

Benchley's characters in short subjects, as well as his appearances in features, have the common strain of being a man who thinks he knows something, while in truth he is as thoroughly befuddled as can be. He's also frustrated by other people, who have no interest in what he's doing, but insist on preventing him from doing what he wishes. Apparently this comedy of frustration doesn't appeal to everyone. It does to me.