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...Broadway on a one-night stand. Settling down for the show, Franklin D. Roosevelt grinned back at Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, Vincent Astor and assorted gold braid. The President shed his coat, advised others to do the same. The third play was a well-sustained gag by First Class Private Irving Gaynor Neiman about a barracks butt who was kidded into thinking that Myrna Loy was coming to see him. In Broadway's version the kidders did not expect Myrna Loy to appear-but she did. In Hyde Park's Version, no one expected...
Real Life. In Lynn, Mass., a classic movie gag failed when Patrolman Edward Ray, peering into a store, caught the window dummy blinking...
...names than faces. Jimmy Walker, John Barrymore, George M. Cohan and many another flit through the book as mere bit players; even Jessel's wives remain blurred as individuals. His mother, his mainstay on the stage, draws a blank. Next to Jessel in importance are Jessel's gags. The best are none too brilliant. Of a decrepit theater he played in: "I was sure there were wild deer in the balcony." Of quarters in a crowded hotel: "We were finally given a room overlooking a coat hanger." As a final gag, Jessel reviewed his own book in Variety...
...sure-fire scene describes a latrine orderly's dream, in which a fairy, using a plumber's plunger as a wand, summons Uncle Tom, Simon Legree and others from the privy. Sample gag: says a sniffing sergeant to a private, "Have you taken a bath lately?" Says the private, "Why, is one missing...
Around Washington bars the gag is that only two kinds of freight now get A-1-a priorities on airplane space from the Far East to the U.S.: 1) generals, 2) mica. Last week came good news on one of these two strategic materials: the General Aniline & Film Corp. has developed a synthetic substitute that can double for some of mica's most essential war uses. A new Aniline plant, now building, will come into production soon...