Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slash in prices, to cushion their effect, ran into an opinion of the Attorney General that any such agreements would run counter to the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and would be illegal. Since they cannot do it collectively even in the public interest, business men will have to act on their own, in self interest. The nation can only hope that their self-interest operates quickly enough...
Flea-Bag Years. When the library staff put on a show, Fred was ready. He had rounded up all his jokes and jugglery into an act. "I was a smash," Fred recalls. "They all told me I ought to be on the stage. The bastards. I believed them." At 17, he broke into Sam Cohen's Amateur Night circuit-50? a night. One night a noisy M.C. heckled him: "Where did you learn to juggle?" Allen tried his first onstage ad lib: "I took a correspondence course in baggage-smashing." Soon he got a chance to fill...
...billing to "Freddie James -The World's Worst Juggler," and headed for New York. The next year was a time of flea bags, dime dinners and very little work. After that, he traveled-and gained comic breadth. On a tour of Australia he developed a riotous "vent" (ventriloquial) act and a trunkful of stage tricks "to get laughs without doing anything...
When the U.S. declared war, Fred came home, joined the Army, entertained in camps. After the war he took the name of an actors' agent, broke into the Keith circuit as Fred Allen, touring with the likes of Sophie Tucker, Eva Tanguay, Rooney & Bent. His act began on a dark stage with a spotlight on a placard, reading: "Mr. Allen Is Quite Deaf. If You Care to Applaud, Please Do So Loudly." His suit, he confided to the audience, had been made in Jersey City-"I'm a bigger man there than I am here...
Boomerang! Dana Andrews and a good cast act out a real-life murder story against the real background of a real town (TIME, March...