The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
MUSIC IS MIXED <. WITH POLITICS
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tNUH1AuuUu Vh 0EO 4W wv - Butler, the Coolidge campaign man ager, who spoke not word, but offered a deposition in the form of weather forecast for Cleveland in June :. Cool idge-fair and calm" Frank, the First" was Frank H. Hitchcock, Hiram Johnson's manager, who was unable to produce his candidate because tn. latter missed his train.p s
 A Jokn Doe. Warrant
 Convinced that the Democratic ticket to date reads like John Doe warrant the inquisitor.general, sub- poenaed "the most famous John Doe in historyLThe Man in the Iron Mask" who said: 4
 Some men think I am Samuel NJ. Ralston and sernade me with The Moon Shines Bright Tonight Along the Wabash have been addressed. as John W. Davis, and asked to trade fat retainers for nomination. Some call me McAdoo and ask whether am from New York or California. I have been toasted as James NJ. Cox and assured that seven million aren't so many after derwood, while the band played Dixie, as some others said Hello AL and sang The Sidewalks of New York Some believe my name is Houston and dub me the leading residuary legatee. am identified also as Copeland, the medi- cine man of the Tammany tribe. Colonel Harvey thinks I am Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas. They. once called me Reed before Jim tried to show 'em in Missouri. Some even think I'm a college president--I've forgotten his name. l have only one consolation. Nobody has suggested that am Bryan aE. V4 / The inquisition was dissolved when Banquo's ghost entered as the Third Party movement.
 Failing to solve the problem of the campaign by the methods of inqu:sition, of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikad0," but even the musical convention could find none but dark horse.
 Sings Advice .....
 President Coolidge, Sir Esme How ard, the new ambassador of Great Britain to the United States, and John w. Davis were the speakers at the dinner. Under the Gridiron rule that reporters are never present" their re- marks were not published. When Rep resentative Clifton A. Woodrum of Vir- ginia, known to his colleagues as ''the troubadours congressman" because he sang his way into Congress" was call. ed on to speak he burst into a song full of significance to seekers after public office. ,s. hs
 The satire of the dinner ran the gamut Of the "Bobbed- Haired Bandit" ]" to Hamlet in 1924 the '..Colored Dele gate to the republican convention, Soviet recognition, the murder" of the World Court, Hiram Johnson, Secre- tary Mellon, the recent cabinet changes, and Miss Democracy on Broadway"
 The Grave:Diggers
 The Gridiron players dramatized the Third Party, idea in the form of a 1924 version of Hamlet. ; Assisting the Melancholy Dane" of present-day poli- tics were two Tgraye-diggers--a Non Partison Leaguer and a Farmer-Labor Partyite-who' were preparing graves for the collins of the Grand Old Par ty'~ and Miss Democracy" visible in the shadows of the stage. After one grave-digger had abjured the other, to ''get thee gone. to the bootlegger and fetch me stou2 of likker, but be care ful or you may be shot for a Senator" 7" he turned up a skull. which nroyeds to be that. of the poor old Bull Moose and gave Hamlet an. opportunity to soliloquize appropriately, 'i
 The Bobbed-haired Bandit, caused a furor., Before Brigadier-General Smed- ley D. Butler, director of public, safety in Philadelphia, could make an arrest, announcement was made that the bob. bed.haired bandit had parted with an apology: '.' '@~
 "She had been pursuing Frank A. Vanderlip for sometime, to get him to give her job, and she thought she saw him coming in here" it was explained.