Word: skit
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Emceed by S-O Richard Breen, the show included a skit by an unknown radio expert, who explained the mysteries of how to oscillate waves, with blackboard drawings to match. He was followed on the all-star bill by Bos'n Pen land giving a bewildered account of a baseball game in "the bloomin' yonkee stadium...
...Priorities" is a synthesis of musical comedy, circus, and burlesque. It begins with a three ring splurge of roller skating and ends up with Willie Howard's artistic interpretation of burlesque's favorite chestnut, the butcher boy skit. Lou Holtz, as a master of ceremonies, supplies, among other things, the only element of continuity to what might have been called "Vaudeville Incorporated." There's also a kick chorus, misnamed "The Versailles Beauties," who lamely present a tedious routine, but they don't appear often enough to do much harm...
After some impromptu introductory remarks, there was a contest to determine her leading man in a skit that led up to a clinch and didn't arrive. Don Cottrell, Andy McCullough, and Joe Minot were chosen to compete in the finals, with Minet the winner and the closest to osculation...
...Victor Moore to shortchange the customers is almost as if Tiffany's were to fake a hallmark; but by digging up a wormy act he appeared in 40 years ago, Moore has managed to do it. Billy Gaxton has a better skit, which is still not good enough. Hildegarde, the darling of the supper clubs, sings songs that badly need highballs and dim lights, and for a fully grown girl acts entirely too cute. Only headliners who deserve to be headlined are the Hartmans, whose take-offs on ball room dancing are familiar to many, but still funny...
Famed for his platform manner, shining-domed James Aloysius Farley took it into a radio skit, rehearsed for a part in a sketch concerning an ambitious lawyer's fight against a political boss. Farley's part: the ambitious lawyer...