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Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. 3. In which Mammy Congress puts Scarlett O'Budgett into her corset before going to a 'lection party. ' Couldn't nobody tell what's inside and after you is married, Miss Scahlett, you can spread out any ways you like - fo' fo' yeahs' says Mammy to Scarlett Scarlett is Carolyn Bell Hughes of The Washington Post while Mammy is played by Mary Hornaday, Christian Science Monitor

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get al...

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Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. 4. Scene at Hyde Park, supposing that Roosevelt has retired to be squire of Douchess County, when a man from Mars drops in to ask him to be president of the universe. He thinks it a good idea and right away says he will move the Sun a bit to just a little different angle. Roosevelt is Esther Von Waggoner Tufty of Tufty Service, Pat O'Malley of C.A.A. is man from Mars, while Virgila Stphens, of The Washington Time-Herald, is Mrs. Roosevelt

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get al...

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Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. 5. Delegates to the nominating convention include 679,342. 1-2 honest to God newspaperwomen, not counting socialite chiselers, meeting to nominate the next first lady who may pick out her own president. All possible ladies are considered. They attempt to discover if 'Mrs. Roosevelt will settle down, if Mrs. Taft is on a diet, and who Mrs. Dewey was. Mary Johnson of Time, city room gal-bab Lincoln, Washington Times-Herald, Club Editor, Corrinne Frazier, WPA, Correspondent, Mrs. Elizabeth May Craig, Portland, Maine, Press-Herald Chairman, Bess Furman, Furman Features, Political Writer, Malvina Lindsay, Washington Post Woman's Page Editor, Hope Riding Miller, The Washington Post Society editor. Do not release before March 11, 1940

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get al...

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Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. 2. 'Retaliate, reciprocate, at any rate, cooperate. If I scratch your back, then you'll scratch mine.' This is a lesson on how to get along in Washington portrayed by Mary Johnson of Time Magazine and Dudley Harmon of the Washington Post

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get al...

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Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. Washington, D.C., March 11. America's next first lady, whoever she may be, was last night instructed on how to be successful in a skit presented by the Women's National Press Club during an annual stunt party. The skit runs through different satiric phases of women in national politics and ends with the president being offered the job of president of Mars with the biggest WPA project yet--to fix up a wireless so that Mrs. Roosevelt can wire her column back to earth. Wives of practically every contendor for the presidental nomination were guests, and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke off-the-record to the members and guests. 1 - Mrs. Smith goes to Washington as a new senator, and learns her first lessons from the taxi driver who picks her up at Union Station. '..Don't you keep a letter file-keep an incinerator, Senator.' Driver, Katherine Wilson of the Des Moines Register and Tribune; Mrs. Smith, Emma Budbee, N.Y. Herald-Tribune

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get al...

A black and white photo of a man and a woman, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Ge... More

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. 5. Delegates to the nominating convention include 679,342. 1-2 honest to God newspaperwomen, not counting socialite chiselers, meeting to nominate the next first lady who may pick out her own president. All possible ladies are considered. They attempt to discover if 'Mrs. Roosevelt will settle down, if Mrs. Taft is on a diet, and who Mrs. Dewey was. Mary Johnson of Time, city room gal-bab Lincoln, Washington Times-Herald, Club Editor, Corrinne Frazier, WPA, Correspondent, Mrs. Elizabeth May Craig, Portland, Maine, Press-Herald Chairman, Bess Furman, Furman Features, Political Writer, Malvina Lindsay, Washington Post Woman's Page Editor, Hope Riding Miller, The Washington Post Society editor. Do not release before March 11, 1940

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get al...

A group of women sitting at a table holding signs, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 195... More

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. 2. 'Retaliate, reciprocate, at any rate, cooperate. If I scratch your back, then you'll scratch mine.' This is a lesson on how to get along in Washington portrayed by Mary Johnson of Time Magazine and Dudley Harmon of the Washington Post

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get al...

A couple of women standing on top of a stage, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Ge... More

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. 6. Mr. President. Esther Von Waggoner Tufty of Tufty News Service, plays the part of the squire of Duchess County--cigarette holder and all

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get al...

A man sitting in a chair with a cigarette in his mouth, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc... More

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. Washington, D.C., March 11. America's next first lady, whoever she may be, was last night instructed on how to be successful in a skit presented by the Women's National Press Club during an annual stunt party. The skit runs through different satiric phases of women in national politics and ends with the president being offered the job of president of Mars with the biggest WPA project yet--to fix up a wireless so that Mrs. Roosevelt can wire her column back to earth. Wives of practically every contendor for the presidental nomination were guests, and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke off-the-record to the members and guests. 1 - Mrs. Smith goes to Washington as a new senator, and learns her first lessons from the taxi driver who picks her up at Union Station. '..Don't you keep a letter file-keep an incinerator, Senator.' Driver, Katherine Wilson of the Des Moines Register and Tribune; Mrs. Smith, Emma Budbee, N.Y. Herald-Tribune

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get al...

A black and white photo of a man and a woman. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description