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...Baruch, a Pulitzer, two Du Ponts and many another notable, Franklin Roosevelt last week attended his first Gridiron Club dinner as President of the U. S. From the seat of honor in the Willard Hotel ballroom he watched Washington correspond- ents royally "roast" his New Deal in song and skit. Burlesqued before him was "a wonderland from which men in hair shirts have been expelled by men in asbestos pants." With a high wide grin he saw himself welcomed into the peerage of dictators by Russia's Stalin, Italy's Mussolini, Germany's Hitler. Turkey...
...affair is to be an informal one, and will be followed by a two-fold entertainment, literary and musical. In the former, Professor K. B. Murdock '16, master of the House, will read selections, probably from Benchley, and P. G. E. Miller, tutor, will render a slight skit in the manner of Edgar Lee Masters, which he has procured from "a certain mysterious source...
There are other good songs ("I Got Religion," "Should I Be Sweet?") but "Smoothie," rendered by Mr. Haley and Miss Merman, consistently manages to stop the show to the embarrassment of Funnyman Silvers whose adjacent skit begins with his being kicked out of a saloon. The first two nights he was kicked out eight times. Take a Chance affords capital amusement-with...
...acts at the Wilbur Theatre last night. "I enjoy my part in this play immensely because the production is a kind of tonic that America needs. Our country has fallen into a state of morbid hysteria over the depression that we must overcome. The fun never flags in this skit, and the larger the number of Americans who can learn to laugh whole-heartedly again, the greater will be the chances of emerging from the present depression...
...vaudeville centers around a skit in four acts, "Wolf at the Door," which is a parody on a tutoring bureau. Participating in the skit are: R. J. Bry, H. M. Chapman, Jr., J. A. Christenson, Jr., R. L. Cummings, Jr., W. H. Lewis, F. D. Moore, director, L. vonB. Nichols, Vincent Palmer, D. D. Scanell, and Warren Sturgis...