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Snooks first came into being at a private party in Manhattan. In the course of singing a patter song, Poor Pauline, Miss Brice lapsed into baby talk. Years later Moss Hart wrote a Snooks skit for Sweet and Low, but Snooks was officially recognized when she was included in the Brice routine for the 1934 Follies. The late Dave Freedman and Phil Rapp, who still writes the Maxwell House script, collaborated on material for Snooks. A couple of years later Fanny ran through the Snooks skit as a guest of Maxwell House. Signed up as a permanent attraction...
...Master: Prekofleff--Peter and the Wolf. 8:30 Piano Contest. 9:00 9 O'Clock Jump. 9:30 Harrison M. Rainie 1G, tenor. 9:45 Crimson Concert Hall: K. P. E. Bach--Concerto for Orchestra in D Major. Sibelius--Violin Concerto. 10:45 "Mother O'Toole, Biddie of Harvard"--skit. News...
...letter from William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, to President Seymour of Yale, apologizing for the skit put on on between the halves of the Yale game, is being made public in tomorrow's issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
...skit was a satire of President Conant and President Seymour's views on the war and world affairs. The letter to Seymour was as follows...
...columnist act was born last year in the mind of Hollywood Agent Leo Morrison, who proposed it to Lolly, the logical choice. After her husband, Dr. Harry ("my favorite doctor") Martin, approved, Morrison hired Cinemauthor Edgar Allan Woolf to cook up a skit. First problem was to get actors, but that was no trouble for Columnist Lolly, whose more than 400 daily outlets and strong Hearst connections are a potent argument in any studio discussion. Before long she had lined up Starlets Jane Wyman, Arleen Whelan, Susan Hayward, June Preisser, Warners' bit player Ronald Reagan for male contrast...