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...Note Field is one minute rolling up laughs as a cockney cornet player ("a weedy little buffer . . . half a bully and half a cringer"), the next minute as a suave, Oxford-bred musician who performs on a ramshackle glockenspiel. As a poetry-spouting drunk, he garnishes a skit that contains the show's other drawing card, London's best-known bottle-hymn, I'm Going to Get Lit-Up When the Lights Go Up in London...
Field's blockbuster is a skit sharply satirizing U.S.-British relations, in which Field plays a cocky, cap-askew, cigar-in-mouth, hands-in-pocket, U.S. lieutenant. His stooge, who portrays a full colonel, urges him to try to understand the English better and show more cooperation. The house comes down when the C.O. suggests to Field: "You might even give the British an occasional salute." Aghast, Field mutters: "Ah, no, Colonel, not that...
With the initiation of the new members this Saturday, the HDC will continue its traditional policy of having the newcomers present a satirical skit on the production just given by the old members. Concerning tradition, Dean remarked that HDC was planning to return to its old policy of presenting American premieres...
...play would start in the Harvard district, and might even be connected with rumors currently around the Yard about ASTP shows and a possible NTS drama--both purely Scuttlebutt. The play, as now proposed, will be coupled with a skit and some musical selections by person or persons unknown...
That Silly Morgan celebrated his marriage by making his stage debut in a vaudeville skit written for him by a friend. His brother, finding that Wuppermann lacked marquee appeal, had taken the name of Morgan. Frank adopted it, too, and in 15 years built it into a Broadway asset (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Rosalie, The Band Wagon, etc.). In the early '30s he went to Hollywood for keeps...