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...Keeping up-to-date, Pins and Needles, in its political skit, Four Little Angels of Peace, last week gave Angel Adolf Hitler some new lines: Now I've got the Sudeten There's no need for waitin', Ja wohl, all my plans are now surer...
Nathaniel P. Benchley '38, one of the authors of the book, will give a humorous lecture on how to write a musical comedy, and, together with Benjamin Dillingham '39, Vinton Freedley, Jr. '40, and Welles, act in a skit, "Professor Benchley's Workshop, or Romeo and Juliet Rewritten." The chorus of 20 will also sing...
...performance, the White House furnished a makeshift stage, all props except a seltzer bottle (the White House uses club soda). Secret Service men forbade the use of a five-and-ten-cent-store cap pistol. The President roared, particularly at the skit It's Not Cricket to Picket. After watching FTP Plowed Under, a travesty on the Federal Theatre, F. D. R. remarked: "I wish the Senate and House could see this one." After listening to Harold Rome's Call It Un-American with...
...skit about the White House was hammed. Another, about the home life of the Lunts, appeared to be about acrobats. A piece about the rich unionizing turned shrill. Throughout there were very knowing references to Bergdorf Goodman, Countess di Frasso, the Racquet & Tennis Club, Manhattan's champagne country. Best touch: switchboard wires curling and writhing like snakes. Best performer: Comedienne Imogene Coca...
While the National Association of Broadcasters convened last week in Washington, D. C., not a mention was made of Cinemactress Mae West or her now celebrated Adam & Eve air skit. But when Senator Burton K. Wheeler referred to ''entertainment which transgresses the standards of decency & good taste," every one of the 436 N. A. B. members present knew what he was driving at. Just in case someone might have forgotten, Variety's widely-read radio section carried a full-page, $400 advertisement, in big bold type: ''Salutations! National Association of Broadcasters . . . from the CHAMPION...