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...wife: "Don't do that; they might think you're a Senator"). Another showed a maid telling an early-morning caller, "Oh, no, the Senator's not in; he went to seven o'clock Mass." Mexico's famed, shovel-mouthed comic, Cantinflas, built a skit around a gun-toting politico trading his pistol in for a rosary, added "They're buying holy water instead of tequila now." As with Spain, Catholic liberals have been disinclined to blame all Catholicism's trouble in Mexico on leftist politicians. For more than 300 years after Cortes...
Wistful as Chaplin, baggy in the rear, Cantinflas is rated the finest comic Mexico has yet produced. To the Government he is an annoying fellow. A few weeks ago in the course of rehearsing a revue he introduced an acid skit on Mexican election scandals. Although his show had not yet opened, the Government promptly closed the Folies Bergere Theatre where Cantinflas holds forth. Protesting the ban as a violation of his civil liberties, Cantinflas spoke softly but sternly to a couple of officials, soon persuaded them that his followers would not permit the Government to gag him. The Folies...
After receiving a small gift as thanks for his special trip from New York in order to be present tonight, Jack Benny's famed stooge, Rochester, will present a comic skit. Ray W. Guild, Jr. '43, winner on the Freshman Amateur Hour, will follow a sports commentary by George Carens of the Post with a series of impersonations and wisecracks...
...slung Jim and Marion Jordan (he 5 ft. 6, she 5 ft. 4), a married musical pair, never got near the Palace. They never got far in radio until they met a fat, frustrated but merry cartoonist named Don Quinn, who gagged better than he drew. Quinn devised a skit called Smack Out, in which Jim ran a grocery that was always smack out of everything but the proprietor's tall stories...
...Show (sketches & lyrics by Nancy Hamilton, music by Morgan Lewis; produced by Gertrude Macy & Stanley Gilkey). Tap-happy and tuneful, Two For The Show popped open like a bottle of champagne with a skit on The Man Who Came To Dinner. From then on an ebullient cast banged, blared, danced and gabbed merrily into first-night favor. Richard Haydn, who can imitate a fish, gave an imitation of a Cockney lecturer on cookery; as he sucked in his "h's" he almost showed his gills. Blonde Betty Hutton, ballyhooed as "America's No. 1 Jitterbug," shook the props...