“Lord Chester”

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[New Act] Sketch, 15 mins; four (Special Set). “Lord Chester” enters a hotel lobby and beseeches the switchboard and bored siren to get a number for him. She gets Central in her own time. This is cleverly and libbed with some funny business in which a bell hop and the “nance” Lord Chester play the leading roles. The telephone vamp feels a large dinner coming on by grace and through the medium of the “lord Chester,” who, however, refuses to fall. The girls asks Central for Rector and gets first Plaza and then Morningside. A practical clock on the lobby wall reads “July 29, 1926” – the day the act was reviewed – advances thirty years and the three principals in this telephone satire walk out in 1950, bent in form, with the same remark, “Wire still busy.” Audience liked it uproariously. Lifted from last seasons “Hatchy Koo.”  

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