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Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson, military aide and special jester to President Roosevelt, got a feathery jest in his cap: the President made him "Principal Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Indians, Okla...
With gags alone, no matter how expertly fired, no comic can hit even a gag-loving nation between the eyes. Gags are too brassy, fleeting, unvisual. The true clown or jester tops the gag man by being both a richly eccentric character and a vividly expressive type-Chaplin is The Little Man, Durante The Wild Man, Ed Wynn The Perfect Fool. Hope has no eccentric character; but by giving his gags dramatic value he made himself a type-the dumb wise guy, the quaking braggart, the lavish tightwad. But this type somehow dissolves into a far broader and more significant...
Rogers, Kent, clothiers, was the scene of a false burglar alarm last night as well as some petty larceny, "The rumbling of heavy trucks" or the vibrations from the Jester's revels set off the sensitive alarm pausing the immediate arrival of the "who-in-hell-do-you think-we-are" police and a crowd of about fifty shifty onlookers...
...Jester was in one of his patriotic moods. Isn't it a shame, he mused, that the Lampoon does nothing but try to be funny, when everybody else is doing something to help the war effort. We can be helpful...
...Jester called upon one of the useful 'Poonsters, Harry Meryman, for the was known to be gifted mechanically. He had connected the telephone to the radio, and he had made the lights blink; now he would turn his skill to a more essential task than trying to induce merryment. Thus it was that the Narthex emeritus journeyed to the wilds of Dublin, N. H. and there did perfect a marvelous machine which ran on steam...