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This is only part of a varied program for the International Intercollegiate Night on the air. Hundreds of men from at least 45 colleges and universities in this country and abroad will take part. M. I. T. alumni will present a burlesque skit; a quartet of graduates from the Royal Polytechnic Institute of Sweden will render a number of native songs; several Yale men will probably give the famous Undertaker's Song; a group from the British Empire will sing college songs from New Zealand, Canada, and even India...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WGY TO PUT "HIT THE LINE FOR HARVARD" ON THE AIR | 1/27/1925 | See Source »

...wrote plays that were rejected have been asked by the management to compose a ten-minute skit on any subject. The skit selected from those contributed will be used in the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARTIN AND MURPHY ARE 1925 PUDDING AUTHORS | 12/16/1924 | See Source »

...centre of the delegation fluttered from a pole the faded red flag; on the top of the pyramid Kalinin received it and it found its way to a deputation of Moscow workers waiting to receive it. Then there were a number of speeches followed by an awkward skit on recognition of Russia, which attempted to show, not without much buffoonery, how anxious the foreign Powers were to accord recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Houdinka | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

Will Rogers in a skit on Congressional investigations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jul. 7, 1924 | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...contrast between the different scenic effects in the two acts of "Who's Who" is one of the most startling imaginable. While that in the second act is most gorgeous and elaborate, the first act is played on an undecorated stage. The comedy skit "Antony and Cleopatra" is the high spot of the first act and yet the colored comedians perform as if in rehearsal, on the bare boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lucky Winners of Pudding Limerick Competition Picked From 50 Entrants; Arrival of Sets Means Real Work From Now On | 4/8/1924 | See Source »

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