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...successes from the failures is the x quantity of taste and talent. On that score the producers of Keep Moving had bad luck.* Beginning with a hopeless burlesque of Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts, the show proceeds through a series of wooden dance numbers, ineptly written skits, patently derivative tunes. Then there are the Singer's Midgets, awkward little people with piping voices and thick Germanic accents who are employed as courtiers, adagio dancers, Mickey & Minnie Mouse and scores of Three Little Pigs. The problem of what could be done with midgets in the theatre has long...
...thoughtful and fair-minded journalistic inquiries into the Depression and such remedies as the Hoover Administration was applying. Last year Ross acted as president of the Gridiron Club. For years he had helped to stage-manage its shows, with the aid of a stop watch to see that no skit, no song lagged beyond its allotted time. Today he has one son at Dartmouth, another at Georgetown...
...House dinner, to be held this evening at 6.30 o'clock, the guests will be the Honorable Charles Francis Adams '88, Mr. Henry Adams '98, and Mr. Arthur Adams '99. Members of the House will present a varied program of entertainment after dinner, to be opened by "Harmonics", a skit by Charles L. Whipple '35 Next on the program is "Dinner at Six-thirty", another skit, by Robert L.C. Rein'l '34. Accompanied by Edwin B. Marshall '34 at the piano, Richard B. Carloton '34 will play two xylophone solos, "Gypsy Mazurka" by Bohm, and "Chanson sans Paroles," by Tschaikowski...
...will read selections of their own choice. John R. Walsh, tutor in Economics, will render several baritone solos, to be followed by a group of piano numbers by Morton P. Kahn '34, and a 'cello selection by Frederic H. Tunnell '35. The program will be concluded by an original skit presented by Robert M. Terrall '36. Elting E. Morison 1G, a former chairman of the House Committee, will act as master of ceremonies. He will distribute to various members of the House one hundred gifts of a humorous nature, which have been prepared for the occasion by William D. Cotton...
...skit in As Thousands Cheer, currently the most popular musicomedy in Manhattan, represents John Davison Rockefeller Jr. bestowing Radio City on his father as a birthday present. In a tremulous rage, the elder Rockefeller takes after his son with a carving knife. Guffawing audiences find the skit the funniest in the show, because it seems the truest. Financially, Radio City is a thumping flop. The precise size of the deficit is unknown, but there is no doubt that the thump lands squarely on the Rockefeller pocketbook. Most of the land beneath the enterprise is owned (tax free) by Columbia University...