Show Hilarious Jibes Season All Courses At Yearly Gridiron Club Roasting Bee WASHINGTON Dec 22 UP UP- UP History was made early today when President Roosevelt Governor Gover Gover- nor Alf Af M. M Landon Norman Thomas and Earl C. C Browser Browder arose from the same dinner table table- as thoroughly roasted over the sarcastic fire of the Gridiron club as the chicken they ate For the first and doubtless the thelast thelast last time the four presidential candidates had dinner together last night at the clubs club's semiannual banquet and then saw themselves lampooned in a series of of good- good natured sketches which lasted fasted until until until un un- til after midnight The carefully rehearsed series of skits was interrupted by only one impromptu occurrence which came when a woman attempted to sneak past the watchful eyes of doorkeepers Despite her screams she was ejected Her name was not revealed President Roosevelt and Governor Gover Gover- nor Landon spoke but no re reporters reporters re re- porters were present in accord accord- ance with longstanding traditions of the club which i is composed of leading Washington dents Earlier in the day Governor Landon had called at the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House and had spent half halt an hour swapping fishing stories with theman the theman theman man who defeated him November November Novem Novem- ber bel 3 The Gridiron club allowed almost al almost al al- most no one of prominence to es es- escape es escape cape its searing Herbert Hoover for instance walked onto the stage of the Willard hotels hotel's banquet hall hail hallin hallin in full evening dress but minus his trousers to join a group of mourning Republicans Rexf Rexford ord G G. Tugwell the brain truster who left Washington to become a molasses molasses molasses mo mo- lasses manufacturer appeared at atthe atthe atthe the Union League club in red un un- un- un Arent you still sUll a little red queried J. J P. P Morgan of the membership membership mem mem- committee Tugwell said he had decided not notto notto notto to roll up his sleeves eeves and make America over but merely to roll America The Hoover found his fellow Republicans In a sad plight Most were clad In rags Republican R Republican Re Re- publican Chairman John Hamilton Hamilton Hamil Hamil- ton wore a barrel Are Arc we all here asked Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- LandonI Landon I think so AU Alt AlfH replied Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Ham Ham- ilton sadly but hut Im I'm still trying for a recount 1 James A. A Farley and John iJohn D D. i Rockefeller Jr sang a duet in perfect per per- perfect harmony while a huge chariot chariot charlot char char- lot drawn by Roman slaves staves rolled around d the banquet hall with banners banners banners ban ban- ners inscribed F D. D R. R Imp The scene shifted then to the out down-and-out research laboratory where physicians were conducting an autopsy on the body of the G G. O. O P P. First they removed the full dinner pail pall which had been sewed up in a previous operation Then they found an appendix tied up in Knox They discovered crass grass growing in the alimentary tract a bit of Borah in the esophagus and a Ham Fish bone in the larynx They we were e about to bury bug the corpse when it sat up |