“Billy Bennett – I speak of the artist – was forthright, bawdy, and wholesome…[His] grossness had that gusto about it which is like a high wind blowing over a noisome place.”

— Billy Bennett

James Agate Immoment Toys (New York, [1945] 1969) p. 225.
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British comedian 1887–1942

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