Roamin’ in the gloamin’ (1928)

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Record Details:

Title:
Roamin’ in the gloamin’
Date:
1928
Publisher:
New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Volume:
Roamin’ in the gloamin’
Leaf #:
000196
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 01, 2024
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182 ROAMIN' IN THE GLOAMIN' PorterPorter with a hyphen!" "Ah!" swiftly retorted his lordship, "just as mine is Dewar-Dewar with a syphon!" When Will Rogers — whose unofficial letters from Europe to the President of the United States were to my mind, the most amusing things I ever read — was in London some months ago it was the aim of dinner promoters to get Lord Dewar and Rogers on the same "bill." The result was a duel of wits unexcelled in the history of after-dinner oratory on this side of the Atlantic. They said the most cruel and disgraceful things about each other but in such clever language that the diners were convulsed with laughter. At one function where Lord Dewar had first innings he frankly asserted that the first time he heard Rogers he was convinced that the man was not "all there" but later in the evening Will completely turned the tables by stating that the first time he heard Dewar speaking in public he was certain that "this lordship bird" was "soused to the ears!" Unluckily for the entertainment of London society Will Rogers had to return to the States after a very brief visit and the battle between the two wits is suspended — temporarily only, it is hoped.