Word: skit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage show is perhaps a bit above the State average and includes at least one skit which is bound to amuse...
...Black-out: a skit ending with a sudden extinguishing of all lights on the stage...
...does a variety of turns, from elegant ballroom maneuvers to a parody of the John Erskine school of historical fiction. At one point, dressed as a Carthaginian warrior, he keeps languidly remarking: "Oh nuts!" It was in the best interests of mirth to revive George S. Kaufman's skit in which two blase hotel guests discover that the house is on fire. Instead of leaving, they stay to entertain the firemen. As the flames curl outside the windows, one of the firemen telephones the office for the key to the next room. The other tunes a violin, giving...
Hollis-"The Nineteenth Hole". An amusing skit on golf by a man who is a skilled hand at writing good comedies. II s'appelle Frank Craven...
...often as on the stage, shaking hands, bantering wisecracks, kissing bald pates that clearly answer for her rouged caresses. While she is changing costumes, vaudevillians take the stage-Jans & Whalen of the Keith circuit, Laura Wilkinson of the Body obviously Beautiful, singers of blues. There is a heavy tragic skit in which Texas weeps real tears, thanks the audience with honest sobs for their applause. Intimate glimpses of her night club adventure are revealed. "Hello, Sucker, Whaddaya mean ya been overcharged, lemme see that check. Why, ya poor sap! $124, huh! Sucker, you had two tele phone calls...