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Harvard commencements 50 years from now will be financed and broadcast by beer barons, and scholarships awarded on the basis of the number of bottle labels submitted, according to a skit presented Saturday night at the president's dinner of the Clover Club of Boston and witnessed by President Conant...
...skit with Artist Russell Patterson's puppets, including the leering little gentleman from the covers of Esquire, vying with Comedian Ben Blue for the attentions of two skirted and rouged puppets...
...pretty raveled, the appendages superb. Gary Blake (Dick Powell) is starring in his own extravaganza. One act is a burlesque of Mimi Caraway (Madelein'e Carroll), world's richest girl. Furious Mimi slaps Gary's face, then falls in love with him. He changes the offensive skit, but Mona Merrick (Alice Faye), his jealous leading lady, ad libs to make it worse than ever. Mimi then sets out to wreck the show and her romance, nearly succeeds...
...Vaudeville Production 4-A was booked to appear at Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, while Production 3-A was to be sent to amuse U. S. soldiers stationed on Governor's Island. Through some stupid blunder, the soldiers, to their great disgust, were offered 4-A, a skit called School Days in which frisky scholars tossed apples at their teacher and blurted low-calibre puns. To Stuyvesant High School, on the other hand, went 3-A, a divertissement called Parisian Nights. Intended for military consumption, this program included a scene between a bare-legged young woman, a master...
With this fine controversial foreword WGN (Chicago Tribune), an independent station, put four Republican skits on the air. The Press printed the dialog next day in snatches, in chunks, in toto. The "March of Time" told the story on the air next evening, broadcasting most of one skit over the same Columbia network which had rejected it as a paying customer. Columnists and editorial writers loudly discussed the "suppression...