Evening star., 1946-04-14
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1uSCQ IllfIl WIFI EIGSlQcIll lIuLldil
because, as the questioner pointed
out, Mr.. Brandt was born in Mis-.
souri,, served as an artillery Officer
in the World War, negotiated with
Russia and knows his politics.
In his traditional speech in the
dark" President Brandt cut the
pattern for the dinner by promising
the entertainment would take the
lid off American politics-with 8
can opener. In Washington, that's
easy"
He concluded his speech by say
ing that President Truman sis an
ardent follower of Thomas Jeffer-
son and States rights-with diff
ference"
HE is resolved" said Mr.. Brandt
shat government of Missourians
by Missourians and for Missourians
shall not be banished from Wash
ington. November, 1916, and '4S will
decide"
Top figures of Government, di-
plomacy, the military, labor and
business saw themselves lampooned
in songs and skits-written and act
ed by the newspapermen members
which ranged the world from the
"bull throwers," Peron and Franco
to James Caesar Petrillo, president
of the American Federation of Mu-
sicians, who suddenly leaped from
his funeral bier to call a strike be-
cause the six trumeters did not
have a standby crew.
Senator George Chaffed.
The Gridiron glowed at white heat
for the coalition of Southern Demo
Gratis and Republicans in Congrsss
Senator George, Democrat, of Ge0r-
gia, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, was portrayed as agree
ing with Scarlett O'Hara, represent
ing Southern democracy, that there
are some mighty nice people" up
North. ...
Senator George mentioned big
business executives, but Scarlet
confessed she had fallen in love
with the whole Republican party.
The Democratic and Republican
national chairmen, Robert E. Han
negan and B. Carroll Reece, felt
the Gridiron rays in a duet on the
subject of whittier Are We Drift
ing" to the tune of Let 1t Snow.
Mr.. Hannegan declared he had
"Vardaman and George Allen to
counteract Joe Stalin," but Mr.
Reece retorted that "the Truman
New Deal is phony. you have Gov
ernment by crony."
The OPA of Administrator Paul
A. Porter went for warm ride in a
skit in which King Midas, the Aga
Khan and Edmond Dantes searched
three caskets for a treasure beyond
the dream of man. Dantes, who
selected the correct box, announced
his discovery: "The world is mine!
A shirt! A white Shirt"
Marine Band Plays.
The inadequacy of high admin
istration counsel was roasted in song
when a chorus of gremlins, emerging
from the Nightmares nest" at the
White House, harmonized that the
President "ain't never got nothin
from nobody no time, and until he
gets someone to do somethin' some
time, he amt never gonna gel
nothin' done nohow no time"
Music for the show and dinner
which conformed to the President;
food conservation requests, was pro.
vided by the United States Marine
Band, conducted by Capt. William
r. Santelmann, musical director oil
the club.
AS part of the show, the ,clut
initiated four active members, Will
liam K. Hutchinson of Internationa
News Service, William L. Beale OF
the Associated Press, Charles P
Trussell of the New York Times anc
Fletcher Knebel of the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, and two limited mem.
bers, Dwight Rorer, Washington
lawyer and singer, and Gene Archer
radio baritone.
The code and conscience Of for.
ner Secretary of the Interior Har.
old l.. Ickes, together with his re.
cent bout with President Truman
and Edwin w. Pauley over Mr.
Pauley's now withdrawn appoint.
ment as Undersecretary of the Navy
were satirized.
Ickes Dressed as Donald Duck.
Mr.. Ickes, in the garb Of Donalt
Duck plus white wings and neor
halo, awaited his orders at tn.
"Pearly Gates" while Peter ques'
toned him.
Gabriel: That Ickes has turnee
Heaven into Bedlam. Only yester'
day Diogenes gave him his lamp
Ickes said he wanted to look fol
an honest angel.
Peter: He found one, didn't he
Gabriel: No. He never tried
You see, one of our very finest an
gels tried to give him some Cali
fornia oil for the lamp"
Mr.. Ickes cracked down or
Heaven.
This whole place is reactionary,
he said. Look at that gate!
don't see any union label on it."
The mention of oil by Peter threw
Mr.. Ickes into high excitement, end
ing with incoherent quacking.
"Oil, OIL" he yelled. "It's beer
with me all my life. Castor oil
Crude oil. Diesel oil. Banana oil
Tidelands OIL I hate OIL"
The self-styled curmudgeon in
formed Peter he came to the Pearl.
Gates to see what kind of dea
he could make. He said in Wash
ington he was famous for his "loy
atty" He punctuated the remarl
by flashing on his neon halo.
Peter finally told Mr.. Ickes tina
by popular request of the angels, h
had been selected Secretary of th'
Interior.
Petrillo Is Victim"
The club, week after Congress
passed a measure curbing his pow
ers, put Music Gear Petrillo on tn
grid. The scene was laid in th'
Roman Forum, with Representative
Vito Marcantonio, American-Labor
New. York, broadcasting a funera
Grafton over, Station ROME.
Observation-Disclosures, Romans
countrymen, lend me your ears.
come to praise Caesar, not to bur,
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