San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
ROTARY FROLIC
FURNISHES FUN
FOR BIC CROWD
Gridiron Voted the Best
Ever Given by San An
tonic Club.
HIT THE POLITICIANS
Good Ship San Antoine, "
Light Opera Which
Brings Laughs.
HIT THE POLITICIANS

The program at the seventh annual
gridiron frolic of the San Antonio
| Rotary Club, Wednesday night, at
Beethoven Hall, was a succession of
real surprises. There was not a dull
moment during the entire evening. The
audience which filled every seat was
kept in unroarious laughter for more
than two hours and it was the opinion
of all that the show was the cleverest
ever staged by San Antonio Rotarians.
No end of fun was provided at the
expense of local politicians in 1.-The
Good Ship San Antonio" a nautical
light opera produced by ]. Frank
Davis and Sidney Cornelius. The
scene is on the deck of the San An
tone, at anchor in a Texas harbor.
The mayor enters and attempts to
relate the accomplishments of his ad-
ministration, Saying tn: never raised
the tax, never had any fighting or
any other difficulties at the city hall"
But the crew protests and the mayor
is compelled TO substitute hardly
ever" for never"
SaSU Oh Inc GOOd snip.
The cast of characters was as fol-
laws. His excellency join Tobin,
first lord of the admiralty and high
sheriff, DIR. n. Philip Hill; Captain
y. Ii. Black, commander Of the San
Antoine, William L. Turner; Emil, an
ambitious sailor, A. z. Turner;
Rieden, boatswa.n, Arthur Storms;
Pfeiffera yoeman, Frank Morris;
Wright, firemaI, E. w. Robinson
Dick Deadeye Harrigan, engineer, DIR.
Lewis X. Beck; Miss Mayoralty, the
CAPTAINS ward, William Winerich
little Buttercup Lambert, a bumboat
woman, Charles w. Fitchner. Sailors
Ed Mabrito, Herbert Wallace, Leon
Goodman, Bernard Horner. Sisters,
cousins and aunts, o. w. Almy, Craig
Adams, William Clegg, L. Ward, Her
man Holmgreen, Wayne Pittman, DIR.
Harry Leap and Jim Donnell.
Musical numbers included, Things
Are Seldom What They SEEM" sung
By the captain; We Sail the Ocean
Blue" by chorus; I'm Called Little
Buttercup," herself and chorus and
the famous admirals song by Doctor
I'LL ana the chorus.
Men prominent in the life of San
Antonio, prohibition and other lin
situations" came in for roasting in a
comedy skit entitled, "Inn-Side-Fax,"
presented by NJ. b. Hutchins. The
scene is in the lobby of The Ruff
House. Everything goes smoothly
until the appearance of guest from
aA,-,. hA L
of Mayor Blacks special investigators.
The characters were as follows
Tretum Ruff, inn keeper, Wallace
Rogers Smoke Simpson, inn-tact, NJ.
B. Hutchins; Cy Perkins, inn-nocent,
Henry c. s. Smith; Harry Hamilton,
inn-spectre, Harry Hamilton; Heza
Kicker, inn-tolerant, Fred Burns
Fuller Booze, inn-mate, Bert Nc
Lean; Jax Prague, inn-cognito,
Charles AIDE.
Frank Lewis and Harry Mills pre-
sented a mystic sketch entitled, "a
Psynthetic Psychic" in which the
minds Of some of the Rotarians- were
read with the ease of Powell. A
fourth sketch in black-face was pre-
sented by r. r. Witt and Carl New
ton.
Tell Of Achievements.
The show was opened with a brief
address by the president, Harry H..
Rogers. Mr.. Rogers said Rotary had
its play day as well as its work day.
Enumerating the accomplishments of
the club, he mentioned the $4,000
raised this year and last for assisting
deserving high school graduates in COM
pleting their education, the $4,000
raised for assisting the organization
of Boy Scout troops in the smaller
localities and the support given the
movement to keep children in school
until they finish the elementary grades.
John Singleton of Waxahachie, re-
firing district governor of Rotary was