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French Military MarchSaint-Saens *Overture to "Der Freishutz" Weber *Two Hearts in 1/4 Time Stolz *"Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier *"Sylvia," Ballet Suite Dollbes The Huntresses of Diana--Pizzicati--The Procession of Bacchus *Suite, for String Orehestra Corelli *Bolero Ravel *Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms *Pracludium Jarnefelt *Wintergreen for President Greshwin...
William Gaxton, "President Wintergreen" of both the stage successes, however, declined when it was suggested to him that he might make a good President for the home of the Elis. "I'll leave all such jobs to Throttlebottom," said Mr. Gaxton. "However, if I were President, I think I could help them out in athletics. I would have the Yale faculty play the Harvard faculty--that would be a real game, and by the way Lois Moran might give them some inspiration, she did well by Harvard...
...portentous superstition, we are informed, has grown up among the inhabitants of the press box at the football games. The inquiring reporters, alert to everything except the game, have noticed a pecullar circumstance connected with the band's rendition of "Wintergreen for President." Whenever it has been played this year, we are told, Harvard has failed to win the game. It seems a pity to sacrifice the beautiful strains of our traditional college song; but apparently it is that or the victory. The students have their choice...
President Wintergreen (William Gaxton) is on the verge of being defeated for reelection. To no avail do his constituents parade with posters proclaiming: HE KEPT US OUT OF WORK, WINTERGREEN WANTS WINTERGREEN, MRS. WINTERGREEN WANTS WINTERGREEN, WINTERGREEN WANTS MRS. WINTERGREEN. His opponent's adherents advertise: JOHN P. TWEEDLEDEE IS A MOOSE, TWEEDLEDEE IS AN ELK, TWEEDLEDEE IS A HORSE'S NECK...
...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...