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Serving as a curtain raiser to Androcles was Sean O'Casey's Pound on Demand-a piece of slapstick about two drunks skittering about a post office while trying to cash a money order. The skit, like the more potted of the two performers, fell flat on its face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Dec. 30, 1946 | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...troublesome skit, a song called The Left Honourable, includes the verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ardly an Aitch | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Dunster's Funsters, still smarting from the House Master's banning of their original Christmas play on the grounds of "taste," are busily rehearsing a substitute variety skit. Impromptu entertainment and dancing will conclude the evening. Lowell will limit its activities to a House smoker tomorrow night, with a promise to residence of "Loads of beer, singing, frolic, and fun, to make this Christmas a joyous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dances, Plays, Punch Usher in House-Wide Christmas Festivities | 12/12/1946 | See Source »

...Trough. In Washington, D.C., Author Jeff Baker finished a radio skit in which his main character was arrested for parking in front of a horse-watering trough, a few weeks later was pinched the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 2, 1946 | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...ribs Army red tape, imagining Paul Revere, under present-day methods, trying to get a horse; it ribs the housing setup for veterans ("I can put you on the waiting list for a cave"). In its funniest skit, it offers an infantryman's conception of life in the Air Forces-toast after toast in champagne to "the Blue Lady of the clouds," love-maddened women, tony chatter, youths who moan: "Look at me, 22 years old and still only a major!" And one of its liveliest ditties spoofs the Army as a character builder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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