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Wintergreen loses the election, takes his wife (Lois Moran), Vice President Throttlebottom (Victor Moore) and his Cabinet into the shirt business with him in Manhattan. They make blue shirts. Times get worse. An agitator named Kruger, impersonated by that violent Comedian Philip Loeb, gives Wintergreen the notion of starting a Blue Shirt revolution when he leads a band of grimy Union Square radicals ("We Seldom Fill Our Stomics, But We're Full of Economics") in song: Down, down with the House of Morgan! We'll blow up the Roxy organ! Down with novelists like Zola! Down with pianists...
...primary purpose of the theater is to entertain and amuse," declared Victor Moore, famed comedian who again is portraying the role of the ineffectual Throttlebottom in "Let 'Em Eat Cake" at the Shubert Theater, the sequel to "Of Thee 1 Sing." in an interview last night...
...putting out into Great South Bay to catch weakfish, with his son Robert. Actor Victor Moore (Of Thee I Sing's Vice President Alexander Throttlebottom) lost control of his outboard motorboat, Embobora II, when its tiller inexplicably came loose in his hand. Down upon him bore a dory. There was a smash-bang amidships and the next thing Alexander Throttlebottom knew he was thrashing about beneath his own overturned craft. He tried to duck out on one side only to crack his head on wreckage, see stars. Down he went again, coming up on the other side. Breathless...
...whose taste is not always unexceptionable, might have picked a better name for his latest hero than Richard Roe. The name, with other Roe-ish actions and qualities, will irresistibly remind many a reader who has seen the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Of Thee I Sing of that forgotten man, Alexander Throttlebottom. Author Morley has not tried to make his hero heroic but he has certainly not intended to go to the other extreme and make him vicepresidential...
When the sandblasting was over. Dr. France tried to get to the rostrum himself. Protesting about "his rights," he was bundled off by policemen (like Nominee Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing). He was rescued by Hearst newshawks, allowed to pour out his grievances: "This is a colossal piece of political racketeering. I was going to put the name of Calvin Coolidge before the convention and it would have stampeded them. And Snell knew it. The nomination of this man Hoover is invalid...