In the opening scene, set in September 1929,
Moss Hart turns on his radio to listen to a news report by
Jimmy Wallington. One of the stories features an error as Wallington reports "Colonel Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York yesterday from a 10-month expedition in China...the former President was in excellent spirits..." This would have been impossible as President
Theodore Roosevelt died 10 years earlier. However, his sons
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (a brigadier general in the Army) and
Kermit Roosevelt did, in fact, make a 10-month expedition to China between 1928 and 1929.
The radio also reports that the New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers 9-3 the previous day, but the game occurred two days earlier and the previous day's game had been postponed because of rain. The news report is read nearly verbatim from the New York Times' account of the game.
