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Funniest situation: Messrs. Haley & Silvers finding themselves recuperating from a- pair of dreadful hangovers in the same bed. Most amusing lyric, sung by Miss Merman in a levee resort...
...America's Sweetheart). No impresarios were ever more feverishly active than droll, cow-eyed Jack Haley (Free For All), and hook-nosed Sid Silvers, who used to sit in an upper box and insult Phil Baker. Cropping out here & there in the proceedings is curvesome, loud-shouting Ethel Merman (Zimmerman...
There are other good songs ("I Got Religion," "Should I Be Sweet?") but "Smoothie," rendered by Mr. Haley and Miss Merman, consistently manages to stop the show to the embarrassment of Funnyman Silvers whose adjacent skit begins with his being kicked out of a saloon. The first two nights he was kicked out eight times. Take a Chance affords capital amusement-with...
...other speakers who took part in last night's audition, with their orations, were: D. M. Sullivan '33. "The Forsaken Merman" by Matthew Arnold; P. H. Cohen '32, the death of Socrates from Plato's "Phaedo," translated by Benjamin Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, speech before the American Bar Association on March 8, 1930, by Frank I. Kellogg; H. D. Patterson '34, "The Decline of the Drama" by Stephen Leacock; Albert Allen '33, a selection from "Sticks and Stones" by Lewis Mumford; and A. L. Gordon '34, "Address before the Suffolk Bar Association," February 5, 1885, by Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...program for the contest will be as follows: J. C. Wills '32. "The Congo" by Vachel Lindsay; D. M. Sullivan '33. The Forsaken Merman", by Matthew Arnold; P. H. Cohen '32, the death of Socrates, from Plato's "Phaedo", translated by Banjami Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, selection from a speech before the American Bar Association on March 8, 1930, by Frank I. Kellogg; H. D. Patterson '34, selection from "The Decline of the Drama", by Stephen Leacock...