Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often lost in the rafters. The latter had a difficult role as Mary Magdalen and articulated through it in a creditable fashion. The lowest form of wit seemed to tickle Unicorn, H. B. Wesselman '32, too often for the best delivery of his lines. Seven cocktails in a coffin, drunk on the way to boredom by R. R. Wallstein '32 as the Mandarin, were drunk with effect on the sparsely planted audience. The rest of the cast did well enough...
...four guzzlers in "Speaking of Prohibition" were exactly in this mood of gentle satire. Actually, Prohibition is a subject on which Artist Gibson feels most strongly (witness Life's altruistic crusade last spring). But these four quaffers were not drunk, just pleasantly "fried." Their faces could be found in any Gibson album of 30 years ago. Observers found a curious old-fashioned touch in the fact that one of them, looking like a younger Mr. Pipp, was apparently imbibing hot scotch with lemon, a British beverage almost unknown to the Prohibition generation...
...Chicago, Dudley Mee, drunk, missed his house, tried to enter the house of Joseph Scherick. Said Scherick: "Who's there?" Said Mee: "It's Mee." Scherick shot through the door, hit Mee in the shoulder...
...Vanderbilt Revue. In one of her skits - revived from her vaudeville repertoire - she is invited to play bridge at a neighbor's apartment. By the time she is ready to go home she has disrupted her hosts' family life, thrown most of the furniture over, and, roaring drunk, insisted on taking the neighbors' hats, coats and liquor away with her. The show could stand some severe editing and in certain of the numbers better direction would add a distinction which is lacking. But there is plenty of good music (notably: "Blue Again," "Ex-Gigolo"), most of which...
...Manhattan, William Johnson, 40, drunk, fell under a subway train, had every button on his coat sliced off, was unhurt...