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With Bob Knapp and Chet Litman temporarily joining Freddy Moseley in the ranks of the football unemployed, the rest of the Varsity received an A-1 demonstration of Notre Dame football from Cliff Gallagher's very capable Freshmen. After this exhibition of the same type of play that Holy Cross will use in the Stadium on Saturday, the Jayvees were called in to polish off the Varsity's afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY AND FRESHMEN HOLD PRE-PURPLE GAME | 10/17/1934 | See Source »

Finishing a turn in As Thousands Cheer one Manhattan night last winter, plump Dancer Marilyn Miller whirled airily offstage, bumped brutally into her costar, frail Dancer Clifton Webb. Up to her side to berate Dancer Webb leaped Chorusman Chester ("Chet") O'Brien, who was also the show's second assistant stage manager. When it was over. Dancer Webb threatened to quit if O'Brien were not fired, Dancer Miller threatened to quit if O'Brien were fired. Everybody stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Prank | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...moment, when Marilyn Miller was impersonating Barbara Hutton in a skit, ''Jimmy" Donahue minced onstage in a princely uniform, fawned over the lady's hand. No one in the audience noticed the substitution, but it was the last straw for the managers of As Thousands Cheer. "Chet" O'Brien lost his job. Dancer Miller followed him out of the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Prank | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...these events became public knowledge last week when Marilyn Miller and "Chet" O'Brien dragged Harrison, N. Y.'s Town Clerk away from a barn dance, had themselves "secretly" married in the presence of a dozen yokels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Prank | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...Jayvees. For the Varsity held Jimmy Knex's boys for downs and got the ball again on their own 40. They drove through to a first down on the 50, Don Jackson turned in a sweet little sprint to the Jayvees' 18, and Tommy Bilodeau added three more spaces. Chet Litman did what was needed for the rest of the distance and the initial score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYVEE TEAM DEFEATED BY IMPROVING VARSITY | 10/10/1934 | See Source »

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