Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever been on Broadway ... I want to get into television before he uses up all my material." Jack Benny is smarting over what he considers the theft of a hillbilly sketch, which Milton claims to have used first. Says Fred Allen: "He's done everybody's act. He's a parrot with skin on." Eddie Cantor is rankled because, he says, Milton recently used a sketch written for Cantor...
...work and dazzling stores of energy. Cracks Bob Hope: "I think he ought to be investigated by the Atomic Energy Commission . . . Unfortunately, he's got talent, too." Besides being an excellent master of ceremonies, a facial contortionist and a helter-skelter clown, Berle can sing, dance, juggle act, do card tricks, imitations and acrobatics, ride a unicycle and mug under water...
...played until 6 to two customers, a janitor and some sleepy waiters. Recently, when Gypsy Rose Lee walked out on a club date at the last minute, Berle stepped in and put on a two-hour show. Last year, when a mishap forced Kay Thompson out of her act at Le Directoire, a frantic owner was assured: "Don't worry. Berle's in the house." Milton put on the show...
...show business too. When an unemployed actor with a chance to get a vaudeville job ran into him on Broadway and asked for material, he stayed up all night in a hotel room, pouring gags into the man. He also helped salvage an actress from alcoholism, wrote an act for her, paid for its musical arrangements, made the bookings and appeared with her on the early engagements. He is easily approachable to down-&-outers, and generous with gifts. Among his unusual presents: plastic-nose operations just like his own for his secretary and the head of his fan club...
Soloist for the evening is Karl Kohn '48, who will perform Franck's, "Symphonic Variations" for piano and orchestra. Kohn and Andrew M. Heath, Jr. '50 will act as accompanists for the Glee Club...