Evening star., 1937-04-11
GR|D|R0N NCLUBMEN
HIT COURT PLAN
Skit, Witnessed by Roose'
veit, Shows Jurists in
Rubber Stamp Role.
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the extremes of satire. song and
dance! For the first time in its his
tory the Gridiron Club presented a
ballet! It was The Life and Works
OF Joseph E. Davies" for which ''The
Imperial Russian Ballet" had been
engaged at enormous expense"
The Presidents reorganization plan
discovered "a Roosevelt with pas
sion for anonymity" as well as two
congressman Mortified because they
had been offered patronage jobs.
The clubs traditions were borne
out when, in unreported speeches,
President Roosevelt spoke his mind,
and another view was presented-this
time by leading industrialist, Myron
c. Taylor, chairman Of the board
Of the United States Steel Corp.
The dinner started with the in
auguration of President G. Gould
Lincoln of The Washington Star
Suddenly on the stage appeared news
boys and pedestrians. One excited
newsboy was calling: The Washington
Star! All about the Inauguration of
President Lincoln!"
4llC SOOu Oll GptllIilS Quar- GET
tainly catches up with the news"
remarked a pedestrian, but it de-
velops that The Star has a scoop
President Lincoln is inaugurated then
and there before the diners.
Hull Dreams of Horrors
Not long afterWard, the lights
again darkened and after Secretary
of TO 70 l.;
totype was seen on the stage, fltfully
dreaming about the ghosts in the
State Departments chamber of hor-
rors. These were the League Of
Nations, the Kellogg pact, George
N. Peek, Raymond Morley and
Fiorello H. La Guardia. But it was
all a nightmare. They were not
horrors at all but the new members
OF the Gridiron Club: George E.
Durno of the International News
Service, Edwin D. Canham of the
Christian Science Monitor, John
Lambert of the Washington Times,
Turner Catledge of the New York
Times and j. Maxson Cunningham,
limited member.
The Angel Davies" appeared on
the stage in persona prima ballerina
in traditional ballet costume, with the
addition of small angels wings in
the manner of Pavlova's swan, and
wearing a diamond tiara. To Saint
Saens' music of The Swan" and
later the Waltz of the Flowers" from
the "Nutcracker Suite this club
member dancer was Wooed by another
w. Forbes Morgan, treasurer of the
Democratic National Committee Da-
vies, coy, offered only two bits from
his bag of gold-but after an ardent
woolng shoWered Morgan with gold
and was appointed Ambassador to
Russia
To The Dance of the Reed Flutes"
from the "Nutcracker Suite" chorus
OF State Department attaches in frock
coats, top hats and the traditional
white spats instructed the Angel Da-
vies in his duties-with teacups.
Next came the arrival of the Davies
yacht, the Sea Cloud, at Moscow.
Entered six sailors, bearing bottles
of the famous Davies cream, and ex-
ecuted regular hornpipe step.
within the walls of the Kremlin-and
a firing squad of Russian men and
women danced their preparations for
the execution of the Angel Davies,
whom they believed too rich. But
the ballet ended with a triumphant
revel in the Red Square in Moscow,
for the Angel Davies confessed that
he is rich and paid off the whole
Russian debt in final grand ges-
ture, while the entire cast cavorted
in triumph
Don Quixote and Sancho.
IN far different mood was the club
soon thereafter, when they bore their
guests back several centuries to an inn
in old Castillo. There were Don Quix-
ote. not otherwise identified than as a
dreamer and knight errant, and his
henchman, sancho Panza Garner.
Don Quixote requested Good Gar
ner' to sit beside him, "for the same
may be said of politics which is said
OF love-that it makes all things
equal" But the faithful Garner as
serted that bean soup at the Senate
Don Quixote fingered handful of
Acorns and mused of that far-off,
golden age when those who lived were
ignorant OF those two words, mine
and thine!" He envied the indus
trious and the improvident bees
formed into commonwealths, offering
to all, without interest or labor, the
fertile products of their most delicious
toll"
Garner was not attracted by this
picture Of a New Deal-or Utopian
state, and said; That's nice language,
boss but what need is lniment."
Good jack" said Don Quixote,
thou were ever a rustic. Dost under
stand that our mission is to relieve
those in distress?"
"Mebbe So" replies Garner, IT
wouldn't know. do know that since
we got into this knight errant business
all I've got from your enchanted
friends is kick in the pants And
have had to keep my mouth shut, be-
sides"
Garner Allowed to Speak.
Don Quixote offered to remove the
embargo from thy tongue" and Garner
said: Let me talk now, while I'm still
able" Giving his candid opinion,
Garner said:
''I'm gettin cold on this knight er-
rant business. Where's the majesty
and pomp in governing 96 critters no
bigger'n hazel nuts?"
How sayest thou, good Garner?"
said Don Quixote. Hearst thou not
the neighing of steeds, the sound of
trumpets and rattling of drums?"
Garner: Nav, nuthin' but the
bleating Of sheep-up on the hill"
Don Quixote: Dost not perceive that
all affairs in which Knights Errant
are concerned appear follies and
extravagances, and seem all done by
the rule of contraries?
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