Evening star., 1933-02-01

If anybody ever had the idea that
Congress can't laugh at itself, 1t would
be dispelled by the joyous fun which
members Of both houses are getting this
week out of "Of Thee Sing" Every
performance is packed with Represent
atives and Senators and no one rocks
with more merriment than the political
gentry SO mercilessly lampooned by the
Kaufman -Ryskind-Gershwin master
piece. Monday evening was gala
night because Of the presence OF Speak
er Garner as host at box party.
Every time the wretched and desolate
"Vice President" Alexander Throttle
bottom was on the stage, plunging
everybody in the theater into
paroxysms, Jacks" sides shook, as the
whole house looked in his direction to
see how he was taking it. Senator
Carter Glass, in another box. enjoyed
no less keenly the screaming satire
the piece pokes at the Senate and
the Supreme Court. Among the many
congressional folk present on the same
occasion we're Senator Tom Connally
and Representatives Rodgers, Kahn,
Kelley, Hogg, Mead, Milligan, Rayburn,
Nolan, Goss, Warren, Swank, Wood
rum, Prall, Vinson and Martin. The
diplomatic corps was represented by the
Greek Minister and Mrs. Simopoulos,
who registered nothing but mirth dur
ing the French Ambassador episode,
Quoth Vice President" Throttlebot-
tom during the priceless Senate scene,
in timely aside obviously interpolated
for local consumption: This sounds
to me like hooey. Have they had this
hooey Tonga"
Perhaps II the late Sir william Osler
were alive he'd feel that his theory Of
mems uselessness from 40 onward had
received a rude jolt, seeing as how
President-elect Roosevelt is about to
select the two oldest members of the
United States Senate for his cabinet.
Carter Glass, designated for the secre-
teryship Of the Treasury, Is the father
of the Senate, aged rs, and Thomas J.
Walsh, slated to be Attorney General,
will be IA In June. No men in Ameri-
can public life today outstrip these vet
eran Democrats in intellectual Wgor.
Evidently F. D. r. is by way of setting
up q Yankee edition of the celebrated
Genro, or body Of elder statesmen, who
since time immemorial have been the
powers behind the throne of imperial
Japan. Incidentally, he seems to have
rejected COL Houses advice not to ap-
point "old dodos," but confine. himself
to flaming youth.
Frederick Van Nuys, who on March
will succeed Jim Watson as United
States Senator from Indiana, was in
Washington the other day, acquainting
himself with what will soon be his new
surroundings. Emerging from some
farm relief hearings in the Senate Com
mittee on Agriculture, Van Nuys was
moved to spin yarn apropos rural
distress in the Midwest. "A farmer
came into my law Office the other day,
said the Hoosier Senatcr-e,ect, Ito have
me look over q document concerning
q trade he was about to make with a
neighbor. He told me he'd agreed to
exchange two acres Of land for mule.
After inspecting the paper, I turned to
my client and said: 'Silas, I'm glad you
showed me this, because think I've
saved you a lot. You're giving that
fellow $50 acres for his mule, not
acres Replied silas: I know 1t, but
he can't read, and just thought I'd
slip something over on him."
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Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, gen.
eral chairman Of the Roosevelt In
augural Committee, Genes rather hon
estly by that job, considering thct II
was the other President Rcoseyelt under
whom he fret entered public service
| The late Surg. Gen. Rixey of the Navy
wa. White House physician at the time
Finding the work too burdensome fol
one doctor, Rixey drew T. RS attention
to q young Virginian named Cary Gray
son, whom the surgeon general had
known while both Of them were on q
long tour Of duty at sea with Unclt
Sans Asiatic Squadron. President Taft