Word: skit
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...into my opera what they like, not what I wrote. People wrongly accuse me of being antiChristian. I believe in God, I take my little girl to church myself every morning. The Communists, who in the beginning approved highly of the opera, now say that it's a skit on Stalin and his methods...
Presidential Press Secretary Charles Ross, a past president of the Gridiron Club and now an associate member, rightly guessed that other Gridironers would not take the second Truman refusal lightly. To cool off the hot tempers in advance, Ross put together a Gridiron-style skit and song, entitled "When We Ride, We Always Ride with Harry." Then Ross and the three other Gridironers aboard the presidential train made a record of the skit. On the third stanza of the song ("When I laugh, I always laugh with Harry . . ."), Harry Truman himself added his bathtub baritone. He also sent his greetings...
...skit was certainly no broader in its assault on humor than many another on Arthur Godfrey & His Friends (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). Dressed as whitewings, Godfrey, Crooner Morton Downey and Hollywood Comic Jack Carson appeared on the screen pushing street cleaners' brooms. Said Godfrey: "Well, we've dished a lot of it out. Let's clean some...
...musical revue is neither fish nor foul. Whatever it is, Broadway has found a recipe for it. The magic formula usually calls for the following ingredients: a skit about psychoanalysis; an old-fashioned, home-town dance number; a Latin American fiesta scene; a take-off on the movies or movie heroines; and a big production number which parodies some other form of the theater. Throw in the usual mediocre songs and dance routines that don't quite come off, and you've got "Lend an Ear"-- as well as every other musical revue in sight...
laugh: a lively satire on cowboy movies, in which the hero is always a "buddy" to his female companion, reserving true love for his horse. Other comic material, including a skit about a Harvard man's first attempt at play-writing, falls flat in a most