Friars flex the funny muscle in NYC
Lawrence Van Gelder, writing in the New York Times:
Jack Benny was there. So were Groucho Marx; Milton Berle; Alan King; George Burns and a number of other great comedians, living and dead. Raising spirits, literally and figuratively, onstage and on screen, the occasion was the “Friars Frolic,” the revival after a hiatus of some 50 years of a Friars Club tradition that dates to 1908, when Victor Herbert wrote the “Friars Song” for the very first of these revues.
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