Evening star., 1933-04-30
SK|T ON 'NEWDEAL''
. STAGED BY CLUB
Theme Song Of New Admin
istration Declared to Be
"SWeet AdeIine."
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Poles; Mustapha Kemal Pasha, called,
euphemistically, President Of the Turk
ish Republic; Stain, the lord Of all
the Russias"; Mussolini, and last, to
die Wacht Am Rhein," lordly ngure
and some rufians who threw over the
chairs and pushed others aside.
Permit me-" majestically announced
Pilsudski, Ito present the chancellor
OF the German Reich, Herr Adolph
Hitler"
WAS it for this" said Jefferson In de-
spair, that wrote the Virginia Statute
OF Religious Freedom"
Numerous songs to Gilbert and Sui
Ivan music were sung by the various
dictators, with the retinues acting as a
chorus. Stain reminded Jefferson that:
You will find it will be wise,
Not to carp or criticize"
Mussolini told him he was behind the
times and would have to change his
plan, singing:
Il guess he'll have to change his plan,
I guess he'll have to get a new his
torian,
He thought the world was through with
Kaisers,
Before the last campaign began.
The Constitutions much too slow,
We need a boss to tell the Congress
where to go!
For Mr.. Roosevelt's here and showing
us tricks,
Shades of Seventeen Seventy-sixl
For history doesn't mean a thing,
Since Mr.. Roosevelt is King!"
Gentlemen" remarked Jefferson, mo
wonder the Democrats have been out Of
office following Jeffersonian principles
although I observe that Grover Cleve-
land and Woodrow Wilson were-well,
perhaps, q little careless "a little care
less. Now I understand the Great War
aS I never understood it before; it was
fought to make the world safe from
democracy"
Return Of Beer.
The return Of beer was celebrated in
Q Sweet Adeline" skit Ii which .
group of woodland gnomes, sitting on
kegs, awakened Rip Van Wrinkle from
his sleep since 1920 by singing the old
beer" and acquainting him with the
fact that happy days are here again.
One of the gnomes recited THE Face
on the Bar Room Floor" with the vaga-
bond in this case a Senator who met
his downfall when he was persuaded
to vote for prohibition. The Senator
walled:
THAT was my downfall; don't be
harsh; lot of others fell,
Just like the fallen angels whose voices
shrek in hell.
My State went wet next Autumn; I
lost my place and power
Because I cast my vote bone-dry in
that unhappy hour"
When he drew on the bar room
floor the face Of the man who ruined
him, it was the face of Andrew VOL
stead.
But still Rip Van Wrinkle thought it
was just a good dream that beer had
come back. He insisted, however, GO
singing. while all the diners joined in
the chorus, Sweet Adeline"-the
theme song Of the new deal" The
Marine Band crashed into the song
and as it was finished, Old Rip pointed
to the entrance to the dining hall and
exclaimed:
Lock. look it's true. My dreams
come true"
Headed by a German band, the
walters paraded in, bearing huge trays
of beer with special Gridiron Club
labels. and served it to all the guests.
Meanwhile the Gridiron Club went
on with its policy of head and chesG
defation" which was stated in the
initiation of four new members: Theo-
dore C. Wallen. Washington CORE
spondent of the New York Herald
Tribune: Lowell Mellett, manager of
the Scripps- Howard Washington Bu-
reau; Harold Brayman, Washington
correspondent of the New York Eve
ming Post, ana Edwin G. Steffe Of
Washington, D. c., limited member.
Skit on Bank Crisis.
A current condition in the banking
world was the subject Of a skit en-
titled Bankers Away" The lights In
the dining hall were turned of for q
moment and on the stage were revealed
four prison cells, and sitting in each
a banker, clad in prison stripes, but
wearing tall silk hats. When the war
den called the roll, these gentlemen
turned out to be Joseph K. zilch,
president of the First National Bank;
George Giltedge, president of the
Home Sweet Home Bond & Mortgage
Co.; Samuel E. Squeezem, president of
the Abraham Lincoln Investment
Trust, and Robert Rocker, president
of the Widows g. Orphans Savings
Bank.
They were reminded by the guards
that you amt dinin' at the White
House now" and that you gotta dou-
bic up because they just brought In a
shipload of your pals they found In
Greece"
Holding the directors meeting of
Film Flam Finance Afiliates. Ltd,
Chairman Zilch reported the condition
Of the company as follows:
100.
ton, shrinkage, wastage, glaciation
dilapidation, Discrimination, diminu-
ton, fluctuation, nervous breakdown
loans from the r. F. c.. plus possible
irregularities in addition to normal
bonuses-net loss, 38.956, ,00O.23."
Wonderful! What bankerv
shouted Giltedge.
Asked what the board Of directors
recommend. they suggested In turn
Pass the dividend, pass the hat, pass
the spinach"
They dreamed. if their behavior was
good, Of getting jobs as conservators
because "a conservator can't lose
the banks closed before he even get,
started and he's in there all alone.
The word has permeated to them from
Washington that President Roosevelt
is going to call the conservators cura-
tors In the future because a curator /.
"a fellow who keeps a lot Of deae
stuff locked up in museum"
Warning by the Guards.
At the conclusion of the directors
meeting it was moved that they "ad
journ to the prison golf course" bu
the guards warned them:
Remember, don't go near Al Capon'
he's trying to reform"
The prominence of Profs. Moley
Tugwell, Berle and others with an aca
demic background in the Roosevelt ad
ministration was satirizeds in a scene u
the moonlight on the campus of tn
Electoral College showing "a confer
ence of the Roosevelt Brain Trust
otherwise known as the Daisy Chail
Gang
Headed by Moley and Tugwell,
score Of professors entered In caps ant