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...With all his pressing program the President found time to entertain guests, at the White House, Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago, Governor & Mrs. Lehman of New York, disabled veterans (at their annual garden party); on the Sequoia cruising in the Potomac, Judge Samuel Rosemann, who was his counsel when he was Governor of New York...
...their trip they had three private cars so that they could rehearse all they wanted. In the baggage car two journalist members set up a mimeograph machine, got out a daily newspaper called The Touring Tattler. Object was to inspire the Amphions with rousing editorials, to entertain them with such local bits as "Any of you boys who are suffering from missing buttons, holely socks or ripped pants need only apply to [Basso] Judge Leonard for relief. He, so they say, has a most neat and tidy sewing...
...only that, but there was a new situation, namely a jazz-orchestra kidnapped and forced to entertain bored desperadoes. That was rather exciting, and of course it seemed excruciatingly so because of the very clever contrast of dullness with which Mr. Zukor filled the first nine-tenths of the film...
...play which the Dramatic Club chose deals with the troubles of a clergyman and his wife who entertain a devil without realizing it. The form taken by the evil spirit and the situations which arise are said to be highly entertaining...
Swope was able to help entertain the Press after the Senate hearings...