Evening star., 1946-04-14


RAYMOND P. BRANDT,
Washington correspondent of
the st. Louis Post-Dispatch,
who last night was inaugu-
rated as president Of the
Gridiron Club.
Star Staff Photo.
Gridiron when Senator George was
portrayed in gallant conversation
with Scarlet O'Hara, heroine ol
Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone
With the Wind" After an exchange
of extravagant pleasantries, Senator
George was asked If he had North.
ern friends.
George might say some of my
very best friends are Northerners
You know, the utilities, the big tex.
tile companies, and so on. All nice
people, all mighty nice people.
Scarlett-What became of thai
bill to let poor folks vote? You
know, that poll tax bill?
George-Gone with the wind
You should have heard Senator
Byrd.
Scarlet - And that other bill
you know, the FEPC or something
George-Gone with the wind. Yor
should have heard my distinguished
colleague, Senator Russell.
Scarlett And that bill to pay
people IS cents? Imagine!
George-Gone with the wind. You
should have heard Senator Ellender
After Senator George departed
Scarlett confided to her son that or
a recent trip to Washington she fell
in love.
Scarlett-I promised to be true.
Boy-True. Who to?
Scarlett-To the whole Republi.
can party.
Boy-What's the Democratic party
! going to say about that?
Scarlett-Well, I hope they're rea.
sonable After all, ladies must live
White House Duet.
The club ran through a good
share of President Truman's legis.
lative and political woes in a skit
laid in White House hall outside
the Presidents bedroom, where
Charles G.. Ross, press secretary, anc
Cato, White House butler, conversec
for while; then Ross and a chorus
of gremlins sang:
When Harry finally falls asleep
And ceases counting all those sheer
Who comes along and plays Bo-Peep'
Nobody
When Winston Churchill makes +.
talk
And certain other statesmen squawl
| Who tells them, Jaw, go take ,
walk!'
Nobody. ....
He can't never get nothin' from
| nobody
He amt never got nothin' from
! nobody no time
And until he gets some one to d,
somethin' some time,
He amt never gonna get nothin
done no how, no time"
i The big three of the wage-pric,
policy, Chester Bowles, Paul A. Por
ter and John Snyder, entered a
this point. Bowles sang, to tn,
tune of "Chicory Chick"
"Ches-ter-ee Bowles a-bulge a-bulg,
Can't buy a shirtsky or a pa-jam
i-ka .. -.
Price-ee con-trol-i-ka, woe is me,
feel in-fla- -shun-ree.
Freddie the Vince per cent per cen
Henry.-the-F -Ford-ee let's hold tina
Hne-i-ka,
Willie-ka Green-i-ka, Phil Murree
My only friend is me-"
/ Gypsy Rose Lewis"
The next apparition in the Whit
House nightmare was John L. Lewis
introduced as "the coal miner
dream-Gypsy Rose Lewis" H
sang, to the tune Of Personality:
Now once I stopped a war
. While my boys struck for more
What made the Government give il
to me?
Methinks they found that I had
Personality.
And why do the miners yet ask TO
more and more
And always get what they ask for
I'll tell you what the clue is
Lewis"
The skit reviewed the President
defeats in Congress with the ap
, pearance of group of unpasse,
bills, who sang the melody Of "Pape
Doll" thus:
He's got lot of paper dolls tina
he has called his own,
And they are bills that Congress
will not pass.
For while the members are hi
friends,
There's point where friendship
ends,
For votes and friends are differen
things. alas"
The club brought Mr.. Pauley bacI
to the Washington stage by present
, ing a character labelled as Pete
, Pan Pauley." Accompanied by
chorus attired in white gowns an
holding Easter lilies, he sang directl
, to President Truman a parody OF
Aren't You Glad You're Your"
, Politics is here again.
Hear the angry congressman.
With all the world in chaos toe
Aren't you glad you're you?
Labor calls another strike,
Wages get another hike
When OPA goes up the flue,
{ Aren't you glad you're you?
When Ed Pauley hits the floor
: Without a friendly hand
, To lift him up once more,
Pardon the grammar-but amt lif
: grand?
In the White House every morr
Aren't you glad that you wer
born? -
Think what you've got for tn
whole day through
I Are Won reallv glad yoll're vouo